Re: Geode LX HW RNG Support

[Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>]

On Dec 15 2005, at 17:07, Jeff Garzik was caught saying:
> 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?
> 
> I lean towards applying it, long term, but IIRC there were problems that 
> prevented immediate merge.

Looking at the thread from my 2nd attempt, the main thing holding it back 
from -mm was splitting the VIA/AMD/Intel drivers into separate files but 
as is often the case, -ETOOMANYPROJECTS. Will try to get to it sometime 
early next year.

~Deepak

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