Bug 8997 – intel-rng-tools-0.9.1.ebuild (New Package)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Seyffer 2002-10-10 16:53:11 UTC]

Hello!        Please add the attached ebuild for the Intel i8xx Hardware Random Number   Generator Deamon including a startup script to portage.    The Intel Hardware RNG is found on the relatively widespread i810, i815   Chipsets (i8xx...) and is supported by the Linux Kernel.   This is a really useful and quite nice thing (not going into details here...)   the only problem is that it does NOT work without the attached user-space   deamon! ;-)       Because to make use of the RNG (kernel part) the attached userspace deamon   feeding /dev/random with data from the i810 kernel RNG, is needed.    This is a quite simple, small and straight forward package, the most "complex" part, if any, probably beeing the startup-script... :)   Further general information can be found at the official homepage, or the   manpage/prngd.c source code header: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/      Thanks a lot...   Daniel Seyffer       PS: I would suggest /sys-apps/intel-rng-tools

[Comment 1 Daniel Seyffer 2002-10-10 16:59:28 UTC]

Created attachment 4584 [details]
Ebuild file for intel-rng-tools-0.9.1

The (hopefully) only part which might need further tweaking is "SRC_URI", where
I simply added a sf mirror URL. (?)

[Comment 2 Daniel Seyffer 2002-10-10 17:00:37 UTC]

Created attachment 4585 [details]
An initial ChangeLog.

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-10-10 17:03:11 UTC]

does it work with AMD chipsets as well or only intel?

[Comment 4 Daniel Seyffer 2002-10-10 17:03:39 UTC]

Created attachment 4586 [details]
startup script for the RNG Daemon.

[Comment 5 Daniel Seyffer 2002-10-10 17:04:08 UTC]

Created attachment 4587 [details]
digest file...

[Comment 6 Daniel Seyffer 2002-10-10 17:07:32 UTC]

AFAIK this only works with intel. (quite sure *g*) 
 

[Comment 7 Daniel Seyffer 2002-10-10 17:11:17 UTC]

Final note: there are a few more interesting tools on the Sourceforge gkernel  project page wich a have already added on my ToDo list, because they are quite  useful and also seem to miss in portage so far. 

[Comment 8 Daniel Seyffer 2003-01-06 06:15:53 UTC]

Created attachment 7011 [details]
Minor clean up of the intel hardware random number generator deamon ebuild.

[Comment 9 Daniel Seyffer 2003-01-06 06:16:36 UTC]

Created attachment 7012 [details]
minor clean up of the startup script...

[Comment 10 Daniel Seyffer 2003-01-06 06:23:17 UTC]

PS: have been using this ebuild on two machines since I created the bugreport.
One beeing a server and the other one my notebook - worked just fine so far...

[Comment 11 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-01-07 06:10:04 UTC]

i'll test this on my compaq i815 machine at work. i'm at work next week

[Comment 12 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-03-06 03:02:05 UTC]

instead of SRC_URI="http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gkernel/${P}.tar.gz"

use SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/gkernel/${P}.tar.gz"

[Comment 13 Daniel Seyffer 2003-03-07 13:56:04 UTC]

Ah, ok thanks. :-)

I just changed "Hardware" to "x86" which I apparently forgot to set when creating this bug. 

[Comment 14 Hanno Böck 2003-08-20 07:07:28 UTC]

hi,
i have added rng-tools, which is an update version of this with additional support for the 2.5-kernel-drivers for other rngs.