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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Michael Bohn <bohn75@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hifn_795x module on a 64 bit system
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:32:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100227173233.GA20108@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da90d1f21002270604q771dfacj28071771bca33ebe@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 03:04:13PM +0100, Michael Bohn (bohn75@googlemail.com) wrote:
> is there a way to use the hifn_795x  module on a 64 bit system. ( with
> 4GB  RAM ) ?
> 
> I get this error message if I try to load this module.
> 
> [    3.466307] HIFN supports only 32-bit addresses.
> [ 1147.645181] HIFN supports only 32-bit addresses.

That's it - card only works in 32bit mode, it is limited by descriptor
registers. The only way is to work this around is to allocate temporal
buffer and copy data here and there, which is unlikely to be faster than
software encryption.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-27 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-27 14:04 hifn_795x module on a 64 bit system Michael Bohn
2010-02-27 17:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]

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