Le Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:15:00 -0500,
"James R. Van Artsdalen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :

> Has Hi/fn stated what kind of random number generator the 7955 has?
> 
> How is this enabled in FreeBSD 7?  I've added these lines to the
> kernel config file:
> 
> device        crypto        # core crypto support
> device        cryptodev    # /dev/crypto for access to h/w
> device        hifn        # Hifn 7951, 7781, etc.
> options     HIFN_DEBUG    # enable debugging support: hw.hifn.debug
> options     HIFN_RNDTEST    # enable rndtest support
> device        rndtest        # FIPS 140-2 entropy tester
> 
> resulting in this boot-time output:
> 
> hifn0 mem
> 0xa0005000-0xa0005fff,0xa0006000-0xa0007fff,0xa0008000-0xa000ffff irq
> 15 at device 17.0 on pci0
> hifn0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xa0005000
> hifn0: Reserved 0x2000 bytes for rid 0x14 type 3 at 0xa0006000
> hifn0: [MPSAFE]
> hifn0: [ITHREAD]
> hifn0: Hifn 7955, rev 0, 32KB dram, pll=0x801<ext clk, 4x mult>
> crypto: assign hifn0 driver id 1, flags 16777216
> crypto: hifn0 registers alg 2 flags 0 maxoplen 0
> crypto: hifn0 registers alg 12 flags 0 maxoplen 0
> crypto: hifn0 registers alg 11 flags 0 maxoplen 0
> crypto: hifn0 registers alg 13 flags 0 maxoplen 0
> crypto: hifn0 registers alg 14 flags 0 maxoplen 0
> crypto: hifn0 registers alg 6 flags 0 maxoplen 0
> crypto: hifn0 registers alg 7 flags 0 maxoplen 0
> crypto: hifn0 registers alg 1 flags 0 maxoplen 0
> 
> but I'm not convinced it's being used instead of the kernal's Yarrow
> code.

It should work.
By default rndtest only reports failure, use the sysctl
kern.rndtest.verbose=2 (not sure for the sysctl, something like that) to
reports success.
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