From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: powerpc - CRYPT_CRC32C_VPMSUM should depend on ALTIVEC
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 15:00:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160804150048.005f5c02@kryten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470048886-8899-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Hi Michael,
> The optimised crc32c implementation depends on VMX (aka. Altivec)
> instructions, so the kernel must be built with Altivec support in
> order for the crc32c code to build.
Thanks for that, looks good.
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Fixes: 6dd7a82cc54e ("crypto: powerpc - Add POWER8 optimised crc32c")
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> ---
> crypto/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
> index a9377bef25e3..84d71482bf08 100644
> --- a/crypto/Kconfig
> +++ b/crypto/Kconfig
> @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ config CRYPTO_CRC32C_INTEL
>
> config CRYPT_CRC32C_VPMSUM
> tristate "CRC32c CRC algorithm (powerpc64)"
> - depends on PPC64
> + depends on PPC64 && ALTIVEC
> select CRYPTO_HASH
> select CRC32
> help
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-04 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-01 10:54 [PATCH] crypto: powerpc - CRYPT_CRC32C_VPMSUM should depend on ALTIVEC Michael Ellerman
2016-08-04 5:00 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2016-08-05 3:28 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-08-08 15:24 ` Herbert Xu
2016-08-08 22:46 ` Michael Ellerman
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