From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 9: 9:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A0E37B419 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from hyperion ([24.156.109.151]) by fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.04.06 201-253-122-122-106-20020109) with ESMTP id <20020329170931.PCZU4585.fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@hyperion> for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:09:31 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:09:41 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: entropy gathering on SMP kernels From: Joe Abley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.156.109.151] using ID at Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:09:31 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On a particular SMP 4.2 box of my acquaintance: jabley@mail[129]$ uname -a FreeBSD mail 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Feb 14 00:23:41 GMT 2001 gwl@mail:/usr/src/sys/compile/MAIL i386 jabley@mail[130]$ I am unable to add IRQs greater than 15 to the list of interrupts used for entropy gathering: mail# rndcontrol -s 23 -s 19 rndcontrol: setting irq 23 rndcontrol: rndcontrol: Invalid argument mail# which is a shame, because all the interesting IRQs on this machine appear above 15: jabley@mail[130]$ dmesg | grep irq IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 fxp0: port 0x3000-0x303f mem 0xf4200000-0xf42fffff,0xf4300000-0xf4300fff irq 23 at device 7.0 on pci2 ahc0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xf4100000-0xf4100fff irq 19 at device 12.0 on pci0 ahc1: port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xf4101000-0xf4101fff irq 19 at device 12.1 on pci0 fxp1: port 0x2800-0x283f mem 0xf4000000-0xf40fffff,0xf4102000-0xf4102fff irq 21 at device 14.0 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 18.2 irq 21 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 uhci0: port 0x2840-0x285f irq 21 at device 18.2 on pci0 jabley@mail[131]$ Any suggestions for how to gather entropy on this machine? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message