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    SubjectRe: hwrng on 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) fails rngtest checks
    On 7/26/06, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
    > On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:21, gmu 2k6 wrote:
    > > it just outputs this and stops with 2.6.18-rc2-HEAD (see dmesg for hashcode or
    > > whatever that is which is appended as localversion)
    > >
    > > svn:~# hexdump /dev/hwrng
    > > 0000000 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
    > > *
    > >
    > > with 2.6.17.6:
    > > svn:~# hexdump /dev/hwrng
    > > 0000000 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
    > > *
    > >
    > > this was without any rng-tools installed and no rngd running of course.
    >
    > Hm, so I would say the hardware either broken, or intel
    > changed the way to read the random data from it. But I doubt they
    > would change something like this on the ICH5.
    >
    > Who wrote the ICH driver? Jeff? Philipp?
    > What do you think?

    IIRC it was Jeff.
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