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Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:10:52 -0400
From:   Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] RISC-V: support some cryptography accelerations
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 05:11:44PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 05:37:31PM +0200, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
> > 
> > This series provides cryptographic implementations using the vector
> > crypto extensions.
> > 
> > v13 of the vector patchset dropped the patches for in-kernel usage of
> > vector instructions, I picked the ones from v12 over into this series
> > for now.
> > 
> > My basic goal was to not re-invent cryptographic code, so the heavy
> > lifting is done by those perl-asm scripts used in openssl and the perl
> > code used here-in stems from code that is targetted at openssl [0] and is
> > unmodified from there to limit needed review effort.
> > 
> > With a matching qemu (there are patches for vector-crypto flying around)
> > the in-kernel crypto-selftests (also the extended ones) are very happy
> > so far.
> 
> Hi Heiko!  Are you still working on this patchset?  And which of its
> prerequisites still haven't been merged upstream?
> 
> - Eric
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It is my understanding that Heiko is taking a break from development, I
don't think he will be working on this soon.

- Charlie