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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mk: add crypto capability for generic
	armv8a and thunderx
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 00:10:46 +0200
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04/05/2017 17:20, Jan Viktorin:
> On Wed,  3 May 2017 23:56:59 -0700
> Ashwin Sekhar T K <ashwin.sekhar@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> > armv8-a has optional CRYPTO extension which adds the
> > AES, PMULL, SHA1 and SHA2 capabilities. -march=armv8-a+crypto
> > enables code generation for the ARMv8-A architecture together
> > with the optional CRYPTO extensions.
> > 
> > added the following flags to detect the corresponding
> > capability at compile time
> >  * RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_AES
> >  * RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_PMULL
> >  * RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_SHA1
> >  * RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_SHA2
> > 
> > at run-time, the following flags can be used to detect these
> > capabilities
> >  * RTE_CPUFLAG_AES
> >  * RTE_CPUFLAG_PMULL
> >  * RTE_CPUFLAG_SHA1
> >  * RTE_CPUFLAG_SHA2
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ashwin Sekhar T K <ashwin.sekhar@caviumnetworks.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>

Do you agree that this series, and others bringing NEON optimizations,
are not candidates for 17.05?
If you see an urgent fix in all these NEON patches, please shout now.

Thanks