Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 15:50:58 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel 820 RNG Message-ID: <3C840862.53658404@mindspring.com> References: <20020304171519.G52330-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> <200203042237.g24MbwRV068230@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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Mark Murray wrote: > > But, back to the topic. We have taken the OpenBSD driver for the > > RNG on the i810 chipset (and some other i8x0 chipsets), and ported it to > > FreeBSD-4.4. We made some enhancements to get more of the available random > > data bandwidth. > > > > We want to clean them up a little and submit them as a PR, but have > > not had time to. If you're interested I can send you the patches and you > > can give them a try. > > Hi. > > Please send me what you have. Agreed. Anything that stops the "harvesting entropy" from sitting in the interrupt processing path for the most important interrupts on the box can only be a good thing. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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