Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:45:35 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 46/61] fix Intel RNG detection |
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:34:26PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> > > [PATCH] fix Intel RNG detection > > Previously, since determination whether there was an Intel random number > generator was based on a single bit, on systems with a matching bridge > device but without a firmware hub, there was a 50% chance that the code > would incorrectly decide that the system had an RNG. This patch adds > detection of the firmware hub to better qualify the existence of an RNG. > > There is one issue with the patch: I was unable to determine the LPC > equivalent for the PCI bridge 8086:2430 (since the old code didn't care > about which of the many devices provided by the ICH/ESB it was chose to use > the PCI bridge device, but the FWH settings live in the LPC device, so the > device list needed to be changed). > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Since I pushed an update to our Fedora users based on 2.6.18.2, a few people have reported they no longer have their RNG's detected. Here's one report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215144
Dave
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