Re: Intel 82802 RNG

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2000 - 14:51:08 EST


Robert m Love, you write:
> grepping the kernel source (test3-pre8) for CONFIG_INTEL_RNG, it appears
> that there is no support for the i8xx RNG. is there a driver, and i am just
> missing something (rng.h merely contains an #undef)? if not, is there an
> official maintainer?

Yes, I believe that kernel patches for this appeared on l-k some months ago
(I think the subject was something like Intel 810 RNG), and there was some
discussion on how best to use the entropy for /dev/random, etc.

Sorry, I don't recall who the author was, but it was a l-k regular.

Cheers, Andreas

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