Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:25:41 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom_gbde and Hardware Crypto Accelerators Message-ID: <5439.1112765141@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:40:19 EDT." <8ti651lgqiguv9tld6covi8ubsk2fvbggm@4ax.com>
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In message <8ti651lgqiguv9tld6covi8ubsk2fvbggm@4ax.com>, Mike Tancsa writes: >On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:21:34 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions >you wrote: > >>After searching google and the archives I wasn't able to find any >>current information on the status of hardware cryptographic >>accelerators (like the Soekris vpn1401) and gbde. Can gbde harness the >>power of one of these accelerator cards yet? If so do they provide >>significant offloading from the processor(s)? Any comments on the >>Soekris vpn1401 card I've been thinking about? Thanks in advance. > >Hi, > It wont work. I know the authorth was thinking about adding >VIA C3/Padlock support, but not sure the details. There is partial support for opencrypto/hifn/vpn1401 in the p4 branch phk_gbde, but it doesn't help very much because of the high setup overhead of the hifn chip. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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