Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261255AbUKSFGM (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:06:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261263AbUKSFGM (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:06:12 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:31947 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261256AbUKSFGB (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:06:01 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: PATCH: Altivec support for RAID-6 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, which We do not fancy Message-ID: References: <419C46C7.4080206@zytor.com> <69304d1104111812234656a606@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1100840754 31433 127.0.0.1 (19 Nov 2004 05:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:05:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 17 Followup to: <69304d1104111812234656a606@mail.gmail.com> By author: Antonio Vargas In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > hpa, are you aware of any other routines which should benefit from altivec? > Presumably the XOR code used by RAID-5, and quite possibly some of the cryptography stuff. Unlike most SIMD instruction sets, it should be possible to write AES using Altivec. -hpa - 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/