It's pretty sad that the embedded system problem is exposed to the userland, which isn't a reasonable place to deal with the problem. A better solution would be

It's pretty sad that the embedded system problem is exposed to the userland, which isn't a reasonable place to deal with the problem. A better solution would be to require the bootloader to supply the kernel with a seed (as, I gather, OpenBSD deals with the problem) and not support hardware that doesn't have at least one of 1) hardware rng or 2) 256 bits of non-volatile storage for storing a seed across boots available to the bootloader.