Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:52:24 +0000 | From | "gmu 2k6" <> | Subject | Re: hwrng on 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) fails rngtest checks |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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