Re: IPSEC/crypto is broken in FreeBSD/powerpc 7.0-RELEASE!

From: Doug Rabson <dfr_at_rabson.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:53:14 +0000
On 4 Mar 2008, at 15:36, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <9299FBBE-F58A-4107-991D-1C851EB8802C_at_rabson.org>
>            Doug Rabson <dfr_at_rabson.org> writes:
> : I can't see the code which adds this device on a first look. Can you
> : tell me the filename and I'll take a quick look at it.
>
> The problem actually turns out to be in how the powerpc nexus does
> things.  It does them in a very un-nexus-like way.  The nexus attached
> drivers ask for hardware details, which isn't done elsewhere.  This
> means when you mix and match the ones that expect to be explicitly set
> and the ones that don't that you run into trouble.
>
> This needs to be reworked.

Perhaps the crypto stuff should add itself to root0 instead of nexus.
Received on Tue Mar 04 2008 - 14:53:22 UTC

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