Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: hwrng on 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) fails rngtest checks | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:49:10 +0200 |
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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?
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