Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 5 Nov 2000 12:48:24 -0500 (EST) | From | "Robert M. Love" <> | Subject | Re: i82808 hardware hub RNG |
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On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Heusden, Folkert van hissed: > I wrote a daemon that fetches (as root-user) random numbers from the RNG in > the i82808 (found on 815-chipsets). > You can download it from http://www.vanheusden.com/Linux/random.php3 . > Currently, I'm trying to rewrite things into a kernel-module so that one has > a standard character device which can deliver random values then. > Please give it a try as I do not own a PC with such a motherboard ;-/
a driver for this already exists in 2.4 and was recently back-ported to 2.2. it works on i810, i815, and i820. it features a char device for grabbing entropy and a timer device to inject the entropy directly into /dev/random.
Jeff Garzik wrote it.
i am using it in 2.4 on my i815.
-- Robert M. Love rml@ufl.edu rml@tech9.net
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