Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 22:58 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:37, Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I see these two messages in dmesg and I am not sure what they're about:
> >
> > intel_rng: FWH not detected
> 
> I think this has to do with:
> 
> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y
> 
> Evidently my laptop does not have a firmware hub (FWH) for generating random 
> numbers.

Or that your laptop can't generate random hardware.

> > hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda:
> > hw_config=600d, UDMA(100)
> >
> > What's the hw_config part?
> 
> Any more (useful) ideas on this?

I admit I had to read the joke 4 times before I got it, but that only
makes it funnier.

um, I think it's a register (ie. a number where each bit has some
meaning) about the capability of your HD.  What exactly 0x6000, 0x8,
0x4, and 0x1 are, I don't know.  Something to do with cable types, and
so on, I think.

someone more into the kernel could probably help more here I think :)

HTH,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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