Re: new HW RNG freezes kernels > 2.6.17 at startup with Xeon 5130

2007-01-15 Thread Jan Beulich
A patch was sent out to (hopefully) address this problem (or at least allow you to work around it), which had been reported for a similar machine before. The patch is present in 2.6.20-rc5. Jan >>> Martin Bretschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 15.01.07 13:07 >>> Hi, it seems to me that the new hardw

new HW RNG freezes kernels > 2.6.17 at startup with Xeon 5130

2007-01-15 Thread Martin Bretschneider
Hi, it seems to me that the new hardware random number generator (HW RNG) freezes my hardware: The CPU is Intel Xeon 5130 (Intel Core microarchitecture) [1] installed on Intel Server Board S5000VSA. Linux is run in 64bit mode and the distribution is Debian Etch (but that should not matter)