That was in 2022. Lots of people will have machines without new BIOS. I wonder if our kernel should have similar code to enable the registers.
Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > On Apr 21 17:27:37, dera...@openbsd.org wrote: > > Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > > > > > Christian Weisgerber: > > > > > > > I built a kernel with an instrumented driver. Unfortunately, no > > > > entropy is provided: > > > > > > FWIW, it appears to work on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000: > > > > > > ccp: rng 058f9dad > > > ccp: rng f0a495ba > > > ccp: rng a757bdf7 > > > ccp: rng 31b21d19 > > > ccp: rng d1ce1c78 > > > ccp: rng 863c9199 > > > > The driver does no initialization. Maybe there is a register that needs to > > be initialized, and some firmwares initialize it, but others don't. > > for reference, coreboot claims to enable it on the apu: > > https://github.com/pcengines/coreboot/pull/505 > https://github.com/pcengines/apu2-documentation/issues/112 >
