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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] better CRYPTO_AES <-> CRYPTO_AES_586 dependencies
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:50:25 +0000 (UTC)
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Followup to:  <20050225222938.GG3311@stusta.de>
By author:    Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > Wouldn't the 586 one also work on x86_64?
> 
> I'd assume yes.
> 
> But the CRYPTO_AES_586 were already this way, and since I don't know the 
> history of these dependencies this isn't changed by my patch.
> 

Anything written in assembly would have to be specifically adjusted to
work on x86-64 (different ABI, 64-bit pointers, etc.)

	-hpa
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