From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [GSoC] project proposal Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:07:56 +0200 Message-ID: <553659BC.2090508@redhat.com> References: <5509AAEE.8010307@redhat.com> <5509E748.9000501@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "MA..." , Kim Phillips To: Catalin Vasile , Stefan Hajnoczi Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39167 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754556AbbDUOIB (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:08:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 21/04/2015 16:07, Catalin Vasile wrote: > I don't get the part with getting cryptodev upstream. > I don't know what getting cryptodev upstream actually implies. > From what I know cryptodev is done (is a functional project) that was > rejected in the Linux Kernel > and there isn't actually way to get it upstream. Yes, I agree. Paolo > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Paolo Bonzini > wrote: > > On 18/03/2015 18:05, Catalin Vasile wrote: > >> cryptodev is not merged into upstream from what I know. > > > > Yes, but QEMU runs on non-Linux platforms too. Of course doing > > vhost+driver or gnutls+driver would be already more than enough for the > > summer. > > My suggestion is to work on the gnutls driver. Then, if you have time > left, get cryptodev upstream (it can be part of your GSoC project > plan).