Re: Core i5 AES acceleration

From: Norikatsu Shigemura <nork_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:44:22 +0900
Hi Devid and Julian.

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:10:28 -0800
Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> wrote:
> David Ehrmann wrote:
> > Does FreeBSD currently support cryptographic acceleration for AES on the 
> > Core i5 CPU?  I searched, but couldn't find anything, and the crypto(4) 
> > manpage only lists these divers in "see also:"
> no, but if you write a driver for it we will... :-)
> (most things in open source happen because someone needs it.)

	I found Linux's code: http://lwn.net/Articles/311094/
	I think that it looks too easy, maybe, we should implement aesni(4)
	like padlock(4).
Received on Sun Mar 07 2010 - 08:44:24 UTC

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