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

From: Chargen <chargen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:37:59 +0100
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:31 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:

> digging deeper...
>
> The crypto code looks good to me.  It explicitly sets the driver name.
> Drivers that have a class explicitly set will have that driver's probe
> called, and only that driver's probe.  In arm, amd64, sparc64, i386
> and ia64, all of the devices for the nexus routine are added this way,
> so there's no problem.
>
> I think that the real problem is that both 'real' hardware and 'fake'
> hardware is being attached to the nexus driver for the AIM.  The
> grackle, uninorth and unin drivers all ask the nexus for their names.
> That's because they really should be children of a openfirmware device
> that enumerates these things.  However, since there's now a 'fake'
> device on nexus that doesn't ask the nexus for its name (since that's
> not how children of nexus work) there's a problem.
>
> So the fix to the problem is to add a layer for the AIM class of
> machine to attach grackle, uninorth or unin to a ofw device.
>

on the topic of IPSEC/Crypto/Cryptodev (soft), is anyone interested in
testing pr- 120270 (feature request
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120270 ) - because there are
still some features missing like AES-192/256 hardware support

C'
Received on Tue Mar 04 2008 - 22:05:29 UTC

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