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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:03:27 -0800
From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: Guillaume Autran <gautran@mrv.com>
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Subject: Re: MPC885 CryptoApi support.
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Guillaume Autran wrote:
> >Current kernel CryptoAPI is lacking sane support for hw crypto engines 
> >(e.g. there is no async crypto). Until there is such generic support, 
> >it's highly difficult to efficiently integrate hw crypto into the 
> >kernel. I did such stuff for Hifn 7955 accelerator and didn't like the 
> >result :).
> >
> >--
> >Eugene
> >
> > 
> >
> Thanks Eugene,
> Do you know if anybody is working on HW crypto engine support ?

There were some patches posted to lkml around a month or so ago. Don't 
know what happened to them.

--
Eugene