linux-kernel - Re: hwrng on 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) fails rngtest checks

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Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:52:24 +0000
From:	"gmu 2k6" <gmu2006@...il.com>
To:	"Michael Buesch" <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	"Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	"Philipp Rumpf" <prumpf@...drakesoft.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hwrng on 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) fails rngtest checks

On 7/26/06, Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> wrote:
> 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?

IIRC it was Jeff.
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