From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "gmu 2k6" <gmu2006@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hwrng on 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) fails rngtest checks
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:49:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607261649.10947.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f96157c40607260721s43837f9er810da838ed56cf1b@mail.gmail.com>
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?
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-26 14:51 UTC|newest]
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2006-07-26 13:44 ` hwrng on 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) fails rngtest checks Michael Buesch
2006-07-26 14:21 ` gmu 2k6
2006-07-26 14:49 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2006-07-26 14:52 ` gmu 2k6
2006-07-26 15:30 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-26 15:42 ` gmu 2k6
2006-07-26 19:44 ` gmu 2k6
2006-07-27 13:29 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-27 14:20 ` gmu 2k6
2006-07-27 14:32 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-27 15:07 ` gmu 2k6
2006-07-26 14:23 ` gmu 2k6
2006-07-25 19:37 gmu 2k6
2006-07-25 19:44 ` gmu 2k6
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