wrong device name in axen(4)

2015-08-04 Thread Clemens Goessnitzer
Hello tech@, I think you spelled one device name wrong. Attached is a patch to correct this. Best regards, Clemens Index: share/man/man4/axen.4 === RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/axen.4,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -p -u

Warning on assembly of RdRand instructions

2015-08-04 Thread Michael McConville
This was just an experiment, but it might be worth sharing. Using RdRand in userland software is risky, and not just for tinfoil-hattish reasons: https://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/random.pdf Intel suggests that people call it directly. As chips with RdRand become more

Re: Possible fix for i217 problem

2015-08-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/08/04 22:40, Stefan Fritsch wrote: someone mentioned to me the i217-LM problems that were reported on misc end of May. It is possible that the patch below helps. This fixes my Dell poweredge T20: em0 at pci0 dev 25 function 0 Intel I217-LM rev 0x04: msi, address f8:b1:56:... And

Re: Warning on assembly of RdRand instructions

2015-08-04 Thread Alexey Suslikov
Michael McConville mmcconv1 at sccs.swarthmore.edu writes: https://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/random.pdf made my day: “The way RDRAND is being used in kernels = 3.12.3 allows it to cancel out the other entropy. See extract buf().” “if I make RDRAND return [EDX] ^ 0x41414141,

Enabling audio Realtek ALC1150

2015-08-04 Thread Alexandre H
Greetings ! With the following diffs sndiod and aucat work. # diff -u pcidevs.ori pcidevs --- pcidevs.ori Fri Jun 5 07:24:08 2015 +++ pcidevs Mon Jun 29 23:20:30 2015 @@ -4564,6 +4564,7 @@ product INTEL C610_PCIE_6 0x8d1a C610 PCIE product INTEL C610_PCIE_7 0x8d1c C610 PCIE

Possible fix for i217 problem

2015-08-04 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, someone mentioned to me the i217-LM problems that were reported on misc end of May. It is possible that the patch below helps. For us, it fixed a problem on a laptop with i217-LM (pci id 8086:153a) where the receiving of packets would stop until the battery of the laptop was removed (or

Re: Possible fix for i217 problem

2015-08-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 2015/08/04 22:40, Stefan Fritsch wrote: someone mentioned to me the i217-LM problems that were reported on misc end of May. It is possible that the patch below helps. This fixes my Dell poweredge T20: em0 at pci0 dev 25 function 0 Intel I217-LM rev 0x04: msi, address f8:b1:56:...