Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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+ Hardware driver for Intel/AMD/VIA Random Number Generators (RNG)
+ Copyright 2000,2001 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
+ Copyright 2000,2001 Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@mandrakesoft.com>
+
+Introduction:
+
+ The hw_random device driver is software that makes use of a
+ special hardware feature on your CPU or motherboard,
+ a Random Number Generator (RNG).
+
+ In order to make effective use of this device driver, you
+ should download the support software as well. Download the
+ latest version of the "rng-tools" package from the
+ hw_random driver's official Web site:
+
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
+
+About the Intel RNG hardware, from the firmware hub datasheet:
+
+ The Firmware Hub integrates a Random Number Generator (RNG)
+ using thermal noise generated from inherently random quantum
+ mechanical properties of silicon. When not generating new random
+ bits the RNG circuitry will enter a low power state. Intel will
+ provide a binary software driver to give third party software
+ access to our RNG for use as a security feature. At this time,
+ the RNG is only to be used with a system in an OS-present state.
+
+Theory of operation:
+
+ Character driver. Using the standard open()
+ and read() system calls, you can read random data from
+ the hardware RNG device. This data is NOT CHECKED by any
+ fitness tests, and could potentially be bogus (if the
+ hardware is faulty or has been tampered with). Data is only
+ output if the hardware "has-data" flag is set, but nevertheless
+ a security-conscious person would run fitness tests on the
+ data before assuming it is truly random.
+
+ /dev/hwrandom is char device major 10, minor 183.
+
+Driver notes:
+
+ * FIXME: support poll(2)
+
+ NOTE: request_mem_region was removed, for two reasons:
+ 1) Only one RNG is supported by this driver, 2) The location
+ used by the RNG is a fixed location in MMIO-addressable memory,
+ 3) users with properly working BIOS e820 handling will always
+ have the region in which the RNG is located reserved, so
+ request_mem_region calls always fail for proper setups.
+ However, for people who use mem=XX, BIOS e820 information is
+ -not- in /proc/iomem, and request_mem_region(RNG_ADDR) can
+ succeed.
+
+Driver details:
+
+ Based on:
+ Intel 82802AB/82802AC Firmware Hub (FWH) Datasheet
+ May 1999 Order Number: 290658-002 R
+
+ Intel 82802 Firmware Hub: Random Number Generator
+ Programmer's Reference Manual
+ December 1999 Order Number: 298029-001 R
+
+ Intel 82802 Firmware HUB Random Number Generator Driver
+ Copyright (c) 2000 Matt Sottek <msottek@quiknet.com>
+
+ Special thanks to Matt Sottek. I did the "guts", he
+ did the "brains" and all the testing.