i went looking for how the i810 rng exported data to the entropy pool
after reading the 2.4 help text, and was confused when i found no code.
this note was in Documentation/i810_rng.txt:
Version 0.9.5:
* Rip out entropy injection via timer. It never ever
* worked, and a better solution (rngd) is now available.
so the following updates Configure.help to the 2.6 entry:
diff -ur linux-2.4.22-pre7-pristine/Documentation/Configure.help linux-2.4.21/Documentation/Configure.help
--- linux-2.4.22-pre7-pristine/Documentation/Configure.help 2003-07-23 16:40:27.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.4.21/Documentation/Configure.help 2003-07-23 16:44:45.000000000 -0400
@@ -18725,9 +18725,7 @@
This driver provides kernel-side support for the Random Number
Generator hardware found on Intel i8xx-based motherboards.
- Both a character driver, used to read() entropy data, and a timer
- function which automatically adds entropy directly into the
- kernel pool, are exported by this driver.
+ Provides a character driver, used to read() entropy data.
To compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be inserted in
and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), say M here
--
nick black <[email protected]>
"np: nondeterministic polynomial-time
the class of dashed hopes and idle dreams." - the complexity zoo