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Eugene Surovegin wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:18:35PM -0500, Guillaume Autran wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is there any open source development done to integrate the MPC885
security coprocessor into the linux 2.6 kernel CryptoApi framework ?
Did anyone wrote a driver for it yet ?
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Current kernel CryptoAPI is lacking sane support for hw crypto engines
(e.g. there is no async crypto). Until there is such generic support,
it's highly difficult to efficiently integrate hw crypto into the
kernel. I did such stuff for Hifn 7955 accelerator and didn't like the
result :).
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Eugene
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Thanks Eugene,<br>
Do you know if anybody is working on HW crypto engine support ? <br>
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Regards,<br>
Guillaume.<br>
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