Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266849AbTGGHAd (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 03:00:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266853AbTGGHAc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 03:00:32 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:265 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266849AbTGGHAb (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 03:00:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:14:58 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: James Morris Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Thomas Spatzier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: crypto API and IBM z990 hardware support Message-ID: <20030707081458.C1848@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , James Morris , Arnd Bergmann , Thomas Spatzier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200307022206.h62M6aFB025817@post.webmailer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jmorris@intercode.com.au on Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:08:37AM +1000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 17 On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:08:37AM +1000, James Morris wrote: > I'm not enthusiastic about adding infrastructure which is really just a > hack for some quaint hardware, and probably does not work towards > addressing more common hardware requirements. The z990 isn't really crypto hw in the traditional sense, it has special instructions in the CPU so from Linux POV it's more an extremly optimized SW implementation.. And we have to solve this anyway even iof support for external crypto hw is delayed. Think of integrating Jari's x86 assembly aes implementation or similar things. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/