Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:47:42 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Geode LX HW RNG Support |
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > "Jordan Crouse" <jordan.crouse@amd.com> wrote: > > > >>>Should all the Geode additions to hw_random.c be inside __i386__, like VIA? > >> > >>I thought that a early version did that and somebody took exception to > >>it, but I can't find any e-mails to that effect right now. Obviously, > >>the defines are only useful when you have a Geode CPU (and thus a x86_32), > >>so if nobody complains, I think that would be fine. > > > > > > Fair enough. Please send an update sometime. > > > > We might as well do s/__i386__/X86_32/ throughout that file - bit pointless > > but it's a little bit more idiomatic. > > What about the rng rewrite recently posted? Any opinions on that?
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/10/29/145)
Looks sane. It ended up with Deepak deciding to split the various manufacturer bits apart and then send the patches in my direction. I don't think that happened?
> I lean towards applying it, long term, but IIRC there were problems that > prevented immediate merge.
There was some talk about moving functionality to userspace, but it seems a bit speculative. - 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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