Re: Enabling AESNI by default

On 31 Dec 2020, at 23:09, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Its for ever dead code on a large number of machines that do not have
> the hardware for it.  I know that is a decreasing set, but imho it
> would be better to somehow ONLY load the module if you had CPU
> support for it.  The down side is that detection would probably have
> to be in the laoder as this code can be used very early on.
>
According to kldstat it uses all of 42KB of memory.

     16    1 0xffffffff83313000     a290 aesni.ko

That’s such a trivial amount of memory it’s not even worth 
mentioning. Even in tiny embedded systems (and who runs tiny embedded 
systems on x86?) it’s utterly insignificant.

Even if it were significant, how many of the systems without the 
relevant hardware are ever going to run 13?

Regards,
Kristof