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From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] HW RNG cleanup & new drivers
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:08:58 +0900
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Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Sunday 30 October 2005 01:23, Gene Heskett wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>Does anyone know if there is a hardware RNG in my Athlons?  XP-2800
>>here, XP-1400 in the shop box, & a K6-III in the firewall.
> 
> 
> It's a mainboard feature, not a CPU feature.

And is there a docmentation on how to find which RNG device you have?
Or is there lsrng (like lspci) :-)
Most of the device names I have never heard of, but working with 5+ MB vendors and all the different
models of MB I really have no idea where do I have this and that...

So, any method of autodetecting a RNG device?

And a question, I always wanted to ask: is there a cheap hardware random device usable in linux that
is PCI/USB/serial whatever pluggable? For MBs without RNG in the chipset.

Kalin.
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