From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751609AbWGZOvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:51:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750740AbWGZOvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:51:09 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:51886 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932170AbWGZOvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:51:07 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: "gmu 2k6" , Jeff Garzik , Philipp Rumpf Subject: Re: hwrng on 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) fails rngtest checks Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:49:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060725222209.0048ed15.akpm@osdl.org> <200607261544.39532.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: Cc: "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607261649.10947.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.