On Tuesday 21 November 2006 00:45, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:34:26PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> > From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> >
> > [PATCH] fix Intel RNG detection
> >
> > Previously, since determination whether there was an Intel random number
> > generator was based on a single bit, on systems with a matching bridge
> > device but without a firmware hub, there was a 50% chance that the code
> > would incorrectly decide that the system had an RNG. This patch adds
> > detection of the firmware hub to better qualify the existence of an RNG.
> >
> > There is one issue with the patch: I was unable to determine the LPC
> > equivalent for the PCI bridge 8086:2430 (since the old code didn't care
> > about which of the many devices provided by the ICH/ESB it was chose to use
> > the PCI bridge device, but the FWH settings live in the LPC device, so the
> > device list needed to be changed).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
>
>
> Since I pushed an update to our Fedora users based on 2.6.18.2, a few people
> have reported they no longer have their RNG's detected.
> Here's one report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215144
Well, this patch should acutally fix false detections.
Did these people actually have a _working_ rng before?
I saw a report of a mac user, for which the rng disappeared. But
the previously "detected" rng didn't work either. (Work as in produces
sane random numbers). So there actually wasn't a rng available all the time.
--
Greetings Michael.
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