Re: AESNI

I was hoping to take advantage of it in openssl, ssh, and geli, which 
would just happen if it was part of crypto.. I'll just keep watching 
then, thanks!

Daryl Richards
Isle Technical Services Inc.

On 11/12/2010 3:26 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:58:53AM -0500, Daryl Richards wrote:
>> I'm wondering what the status is of AES-NI in 8-STABLE? I can find
>> references to it being put into 9 back in July, with the note that it
>> would be MFC'ed within a month, but as far as I've been able to find,
>> nothing after that.
> As a public service, since I already got several private mails,
> I will state the current situation:
>
> AESNI merge depends on the merge of r208833 and a lot of followups to
> r208833. The merge of r208833 needs r208453, that was committed to stable/8
> only recently, since it required an approval from re@.
>
> This delay together with lack of the time recently on my side makes me
> skeptical about chances to have aesni(4) in 8.2.
>
> Please note that aesni(4) is not needed to use AESNI in usermode.
>
>>
>> Did I miss something? Does it just need testing? How can I go about
>> doing that? I'd like to help!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Daryl Richards
>> Isle Technical Services Inc.
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