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?