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* Use armv8 instructions to optimize ARM32 crypto
@ 2015-01-05 10:12 hong-rong hsu
  2015-01-08 13:29 ` hong-rong hsu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: hong-rong hsu @ 2015-01-05 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

Hi,

We are engineers from Mediatek. We have a patch to optimize ARM32 kernel
crypto performance by armv8 instructions. Do you have interest in it?

It may be helpful for some projects which running 32-bit kernel at
armv8. Do you suggest that we maintain it at the main-stream :-)? (ex.
add aes-armv8.S in arch/arm/crypto/ folder)

Thanks.

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* Use armv8 instructions to optimize ARM32 crypto
  2015-01-05 10:12 Use armv8 instructions to optimize ARM32 crypto hong-rong hsu
@ 2015-01-08 13:29 ` hong-rong hsu
  2015-01-08 14:34   ` Arnd Bergmann
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: hong-rong hsu @ 2015-01-08 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

Excuse me, add more reviewers.

On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 18:12 +0800, hong-rong hsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are engineers from Mediatek. We have a patch to optimize ARM32 kernel
> crypto performance by armv8 instructions. Do you have interest in it?
> 
> It may be helpful for some projects which running 32-bit kernel at
> armv8. Do you suggest that we maintain it at the main-stream :-)? (ex.
> add aes-armv8.S in arch/arm/crypto/ folder)
> 
> Thanks.

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* Use armv8 instructions to optimize ARM32 crypto
  2015-01-08 13:29 ` hong-rong hsu
@ 2015-01-08 14:34   ` Arnd Bergmann
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Arnd Bergmann @ 2015-01-08 14:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

On Thursday 08 January 2015 21:29:54 hong-rong hsu wrote:
> Excuse me, add more reviewers.
> 
> On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 18:12 +0800, hong-rong hsu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We are engineers from Mediatek. We have a patch to optimize ARM32 kernel
> > crypto performance by armv8 instructions. Do you have interest in it?
> > 
> > It may be helpful for some projects which running 32-bit kernel at
> > armv8. Do you suggest that we maintain it at the main-stream :-)? (ex.
> > add aes-armv8.S in arch/arm/crypto/ folder)

It sounds like this is just an additional driver, so that should not
be a problem.

A slight concern that I have is that we don't really support ARMv8
in 32-bit mode. There are a few differences between v7 and v8, and
building the kernel with -march=armv8 will currently result in build
warnings for deprecated assembler instructions, IIRC.

	Arnd

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