From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:52:12 +0000 Subject: Re: hardware random number generator? Message-Id: <20040406155212.2ae9fdb5.rddunlap@osdl.org> List-Id: References: <405F9A2E.8040509@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <405F9A2E.8040509@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:23:29 -0800 Mallick, Asit K wrote: | E8870 based McKinley/Madison platforms does have ICH4. It is used to | provide USB, IDE, On board LAN, LPC, SMBus, etc. funtionality. However, | the RNG does not work on current E8870 based platforms. Future platforms | may enable RNG. Does this agree with or allow for this end-of-support announcement? http://www.intel.com/design/security/rng/rng.htm | Thanks, | Asit | | >-----Original Message----- | >From: linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org | >[mailto:linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Wilcox | >Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:05 PM | >To: Jeff Garzik | >Cc: Matthew Wilcox; linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org | >Subject: Re: hardware random number generator? | > | >On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:00:14PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: | >> Matthew Wilcox wrote: | >> >config HW_RANDOM | >> > tristate "Intel/AMD/VIA HW Random Number Generator support" | >> > depends on (X86 || IA64) && PCI | >> > ---help--- | >> > This driver provides kernel-side support for the | >Random Number | >> > Generator hardware found on Intel i8xx-based motherboards, | >> > AMD 76x-based motherboards, and Via Nehemiah CPUs. | >> > | >> >Why IA64 too? This file contains the code: | >> | >> No idea. There are some Intel ICH-based motherboards w/ | >> IA64 chips on them, maybe? I certainly don't recall adding | >that IA64 | >> marker... :) | > | >Heh. ICH is x86-only, as far as I know. Intel did the 460GX chipset | >for Merced and now have the E8870 chipset for McKinley/Madison. Anyone | >familiar with the Intel chipsets want to comment about the presence or | >absence of a RNG? | > | >-- -- ~Randy "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo (by Walt Kelly) (Again. Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)