linux-kernel - Re: enable dual rng on VIA C7

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Message-ID: <475190FF.6070801@xs4all.nl>
Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:51:11 +0100
From:	Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	folkert@...heusden.com
Subject: Re: enable dual rng on VIA C7

Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Andrew, want to throw that in the -mm pile for a while?
> 
> Did that, renamed to "via-rng: enable secondary noise source on CPUs where
> it is present".
> 
> Has anyone tested it?

I hope so; I did not yet get that far since the patche does not compile
on 2.6.23.8. I was assured by Dave that the patch should work on 2.6.24
(and mm-tree).
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