Re: [stable] [PATCH 46/61] fix Intel RNG detection

[Chris Wright]

* dean gaudet (dean@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> just for the public record (i already communicated with Jan in private 
> mail on this one)... i have a box which hangs hard starting at 2.6.18.2 
> and 2.6.19 -- hangs hard during the intel hw rng tests (no sysrq 
> response).  and the hang occurs prior to the printk so it took some 
> digging to figure out which module was taking out the system.
> 
> Jan's patch gets the box past the hang... it seems like this should be in 
> at least the next 2.6.19.x stable (and if there's going to be another 
> 2.6.18.x stable then it should be included there as well).

Thanks for the data point.  I wonder if you get SMI and never come back.
Do you boot with no_fwh_detect=1 or -1?

thanks,
-chris
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