Bug#285371: Still a problem.

[Yazz D. Atlas]

Well I've been doing some searching online and found the following info.

http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20041127.025945.14f6f8dd.html

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> Then i did a little search in the whole source directory of the kernel
> (looking for entropy sources) and I've found that NONE OF MY (interrupts
> 
>   generating) HARDWARE was (contributing??) helping with the entropy.
> 
> 
> This is the (little) summary of the "working" stuff.
> * 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX (driver 3c59x.c doesn't give any
> entropy).
> * Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (driver eepro100.c o_O)
> * Mylex Corporation DAC960PRL (driver DAC960.c neither)
> 
> So and this is the /proc/interrupts output:
> 
>    0:    2991777         15    IO-APIC-edge  timer
>    2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>    5:     434913          1   IO-APIC-level  eth0
>    8:          2          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
>    9:     383701          0   IO-APIC-level  eth1
>   10:        101          0   IO-APIC-level  sym53c8xx
>   11:          0          0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd
>   15:      14543          1   IO-APIC-level  Mylex DAC960PG
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Now from my system...

# cat /proc/interrupts
            CPU0       CPU1
   0:     412559     419010    IO-APIC-edge  timer
   7:          2          0    IO-APIC-edge  parport0
   8:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
177:         63         66   IO-APIC-level  acpi
193:       3020         73   IO-APIC-level  eth0
201:         14         16   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
209:         14         16   IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
217:       4226       6176   IO-APIC-level  Mylex eXtremeRAID 2000
NMI:          0          0
LOC:     831425     831427
ERR:          0
MIS:          0