Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Heusden, Folkert van" <> | Subject | RE: i82808 hardware hub RNG | Date | Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:54:35 +0100 |
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> 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 ;-/ RML> a driver for this already exists in 2.4 and was recently back-ported to RML> 2.2. it works on i810, i815, and i820. it features a char device for RML> grabbing entropy and a timer device to inject the entropy directly into RML> /dev/random. RML> Jeff Garzik wrote it.
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