Re: Enabling AESNI by default

From: Mina Galić <me+freebsd_at_igalic.co>
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:40:07 +0000
On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 20:51, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> We've had the AESNI module for quite a few years now, and it has not caused any problems.
>
> I am wondering if there are any objections to including it in GENERIC, so that users get the benefit without having to have the "tribal knowledge" that 'to accelerate kernel crypto (GELI, ZFS, IPSEC, etc), you need to load aesni.ko'

This tribal knowledge is encoded in bsdinstall when you setup encryption on zfs:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/zfsboot#n1207


Mina
Received on Fri Jan 01 2021 - 19:40:16 UTC

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