Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:49:07 +0300 | From | Jussi Kivilinna <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] crypto: aes - make assembler implementation default for i386 and x86-64 |
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Quoting Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:25:18PM +0300, Jussi Kivilinna wrote: >> >> Well, how about letting arch specific assembler implementations >> replace aes-generic >> completely.. in this case add "depends on !X86" on >> CRYPTO_AES_GENERIC. Hardware >> modules get autoloaded (cpuid/pci/platform/etc) but generic >> assembler implementation >> might as well be replacement as it cannot autoload depending on >> hardware support (or >> it can, but will be always loaded). > > Perhaps we can just force a modprobe of a given algorithm at least > once for each boot (when requested for the first time). I think > that should be easy to implement and should solve your problem > scenario. > > What do you think?
Well, that could work.
-Jussi
> > Thanks, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > >
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