[PATCH] crypto: crc32c-vpmsum - Convert to CPU feature based module autoloading
Anton Blanchard
anton at samba.org
Thu Aug 4 20:26:01 AEST 2016
Hi Michael,
> Is VEC_CRYPTO the right feature?
>
> That's new power8 crypto stuff.
The vpmsum* instructions are part of the same pipeline as the vcipher*
instructions, introduced in POWER8.
> I thought this only used VMX? (but I haven't looked closely)
Yes, vcipher* and vpmsum* are VMX instructions.
Anton
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