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Bump FireMarshal for linux rng init fix#1620

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Bump FireMarshal for linux rng init fix#1620
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Issue: In the absence of a hardware random number generator, applications are blocked on dev/urandom while the system gains entropy. Gaining entropy unnecessarily consumes lots of sim cycles and applications appear to silently hang.

This PR adds Kconfig options to firesim/linux and uses them in FireMarshal to artificially set entropy during early boot.

Related PRs / Issues:

  • firesim/FireMarshal : rng init fix: update firesim/linux submodule + update linux-config to use Kconfig options #289
  • firesim/linux : Initialize random number generator in early boot #4

Type of change:

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Other enhancement

Impact:

  • RTL change
  • Software change (RISC-V software)
  • Build system change
  • Other

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  • (If applicable) Did you update the conda .conda-lock.yml file if you updated the conda requirements file?
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@jerryz123 jerryz123 merged commit 73efea0 into main Oct 11, 2023
@jerryz123 jerryz123 deleted the marshal-rng-init-bump branch October 11, 2023 21:11
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