MPC885 CryptoApi support.

[Guillaume Autran]

Eugene Surovegin wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:18:35PM -0500, Guillaume Autran wrote:
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>>Is there any open source development done to integrate the MPC885 
>>security coprocessor into the linux 2.6 kernel CryptoApi framework ?
>>Did anyone wrote a driver for it yet ?
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>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 :).
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>--
>Eugene
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Thanks Eugene,
Do you know if anybody is working on HW crypto engine support ?


Regards,
Guillaume.

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