Am Sunday 07 March 2010 18:59:07 schrieb David Ehrmann: > On 3/7/10 1:44 AM, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote: > > Hi Devid and Julian. > > > > On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:10:28 -0800 > > > > Julian Elischer<jul...@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). > > I was thinking that if I did do it, I'd start with padlock as a base. > It looks like there are maybe 6 new opcodes. Maybe we could ask the > contributor of the Linux code (an Intel employee) if he'd be willing to > also release the code under a BSD license. > > My problem is that I don't have a Core i5 system--I was asking because > it's an option for my new system--and I'm far from an x86 assembly expert.
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