[Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC 5/5] spufs: SPU-AES support (kernel side)

Brian Watt bwatt at us.ibm.com
Wed Jun 13 04:39:27 EST 2007


Got a question about this in general...
So, let's assume that the SPU code issues a stop and signal to do 
something 
like printf or fopen, what happens since there is nothing in user space 
that initiated the execution of the SPU code? How is that handled?

Brian Watt

cbe-oss-dev-bounces+bwatt=us.ibm.com at ozlabs.org wrote on 06/12/2007 
12:55:34 PM:

> > This patch implements the AES cipher algorithm which is executed on 
the
> > SPU using the crypto async interface.
> > Please consider this as a sample implementation of KSPU API.
> 
> For those of us who are a bit out of the loop could you tell us what
> KSPU API is and 
> where we might see a related design document?
> 
> -Joel
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