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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Hi Mark,

those are all good points.

In this specific case the randomness is necessary for NAND wear levelling,
so getting rid of it isn't good anyhow.

I'll investigate whether there is a way to defer invocation of
the randomizer so that the user can invoke it in the installed package.

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