From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:51:50 EDT." References: <20140328171930.EB2BCB827@mail.bitblocks.com> <51844d0013c4336e5793156d18a91b3e@ladd.quanstro.net> <20140328213959.64BBFB827@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:11:55 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20140329001155.5EBA7B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] bcm2835 random number generator Topicbox-Message-UUID: d2513098-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:51:50 EDT erik quanstrom wrote: > > Sorry about that! I forgot to mention that this facility was > > added around Jan 30, 2013. See Dom's message on page 12 on > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=19334&p=273944#p2739 > 44 > > Make sure you have firmware as least as recent as that. Not > > sure if Richard's 9pi image on sources has something more > > recent. I will check this evening. > > no problems. i am using very old firmware because of the problems > experienced in upgrading at one point. can you post the exact version > required? i may do as i did for the amd64 RDRAND. /n/sources/extra/pi.uboot.sd.img.gz has start.elf from Feb 7 2013. /n/sources/contrib/miller/9pi.img.gz has start.elf from Nov 15 2013. Either should work. Let me know if you are still seeing a crash.