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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix Intel RNG detection
On 7/27/06, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> ># dmesg | grep rng
> >intel_rng: FWH not detected
> >
> >looks like this ProLiant box with the ICH5 chip has no usable RNG
> >included, or should it?
>
> A configuration like this is what actually motivated me to write the
> patch. You need to remember that the RNG doesn't live in the ICH, but in
> the FWH (which is a different chip not showing up as a separate device
> anywhere) with only some access parameters being configured via the LPC
> device inside the ICH.

well, then let's push it into Linus' tree after the proposed cleanups.
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