From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750814AbWG0Pvx (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:51:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750818AbWG0Pvw (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:51:52 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:29651 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750814AbWG0Pvw (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:51:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gWX8o4jl4SU5z4pvCSI1b7zlIuIknR0RMOspSv7QpfGj9o1mB8wZP+4JBlVtxzFWw33pL55JAMAe0dkivQ0T2RjxtlEIRWU8C0Mw5be/x5onuLkGMipjGDBLqi0Cr18+sU9pNUGW69D5b+mzQbmBa+putRRoOUJrgx1kdtFGWxk= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:51:50 +0000 From: "gmu 2k6" To: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix Intel RNG detection Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <44C8FB44.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44C8BE63.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <44C8FB44.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/27/06, Jan Beulich wrote: > ># dmesg | grep rng > >intel_rng: FWH not detected > > > >looks like this ProLiant box with the ICH5 chip has no usable RNG > >included, or should it? > > A configuration like this is what actually motivated me to write the > patch. You need to remember that the RNG doesn't live in the ICH, but in > the FWH (which is a different chip not showing up as a separate device > anywhere) with only some access parameters being configured via the LPC > device inside the ICH. well, then let's push it into Linus' tree after the proposed cleanups.