Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:44:22 +0900 From: Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.org> To: David Ehrmann <ehrmann@gmail.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Core i5 AES acceleration Message-ID: <20100307184422.7007747d.nork@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4B934354.4030002@elischer.org> References: <4B934015.8000908@gmail.com> <4B934354.4030002@elischer.org>
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Hi Devid and Julian. On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:10:28 -0800 Julian Elischer <julian@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).
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