From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932100AbVJRBJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:09:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932373AbVJRBJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:09:23 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:48017 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932100AbVJRBJW (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:09:22 -0400 Message-ID: <43544B3B.6020001@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:09:15 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dsaxena@plexity.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] RNG rewrite... References: <20051015043120.GA5946@plexity.net> <4350DCB1.7010201@pobox.com> <20051016005341.GB5946@plexity.net> <43543455.4080206@pobox.com> <20051018010028.GA16005@plexity.net> In-Reply-To: <20051018010028.GA16005@plexity.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Deepak Saxena wrote: > OK...I already did most of a rewrite keeping the driver in user space > and added support for IXP4xx and OMAP but will look at the msr driver. > However, looking at the MPC85xx and the Alchemy MIPs parts with RNGs, > they have interrupt sources for error conditions so those need to be > in kernel... If its in kernel space, there is no need to use the MSR driver. Jeff