It's probably not needed. We don't use systemd, we don't consume a lot of entropy at start. Listing the entropy consumers and their dependencies is part of the "make a pass on OpenRC scripts to understand exactly what they do" work that I want to do soon-ish, but soon-ish is still probably too far in the future for Adélie. Nevertheless, if some work needs to be done anyway, I'd rather the work be put into correctly reorganizing the init script dependencies so we can boot a maximum of services before getting blocked by a lack of entropy. On my x86_64 router with no specific entropy mechanism (and embedded, so not many entropy sources), running s6-rc (which can start services in parallel), the gettys and most services are instant, and sshd usually comes up in less than 20 seconds. Of course, being able to run other stuff while sshd is blocking helps fill the entropy pool... In short, I'd rather work towards ensuring getrandom() is not a problem than adding stuff to compensate for blocking initialization that makes it a problem. -- Laurent