[kmac] Ignore entropy refresh requests when running in SW entropy mode

When running in EDN entropy mode, software can manually request the
entropy to be refreshed from EDN.

If instead running in SW entropy mode, SW provides the entropy via CSRs.
SW is still able to request the entropy to be refreshed. Prior to this
commit, the design would then go into the StRandEdn state and request
fresh entropy from EDN, but the entropy received from EDN would be
ignored. Instead, the LFSR would be reseeded using the value provided by
SW via CSRs. If SW "forgot" to update the CSRs, the LFSR
would be reseeded using the same value. This is a bit counter-intuitive
and can be exploitet for SCA. It's safer to just ignore these requests
when running in SW entropy mode.

Signed-off-by: Pirmin Vogel <vogelpi@lowrisc.org>
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