/dev/random + /dev/urandom Unification May Be Revisited In The Future, Blocker Addressed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: /dev/random + /dev/urandom Unification May Be Revisited In The Future, Blocker Addressed

Originally attempted with Linux 5.18 were patches so /dev/urandom and /dev/random would behave exactly the same. That was dropped though due to not enough randomness at boot for some platforms like Arm 32-bit, Motorola m68k, Microblaze, Xtensa, and others. But then the change went in to opportunistically initialize /dev/random as a best-effort approach where it at least works nicely on x86/x86_64. The good news is that original unification effort may be re-visited in the future now that the original blocker issue has been addressed...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Random-Unification-Future

[zx2c4]

You wrote in the article:
> See last week's patch for the fix to this latest hurdle now overcome.

However, that link is to the original patch from February, not some new patch. Anyway, it's not just one fix; there are currently 18 different fixes, all at various stages of flight.