[fedora-arm] Hardware Crypto Offload on Kirkwood (SheevaPlug)

[omalleys at msu.edu]

Quoting Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net>:

> On 05/22/2011 09:17 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In case anyone is interested, I got this working on F13. It required
>>> building the cryptodev kernel module and rebuilding the standard F13
>>> OpenSSL package with three additional parameters (the cryptodev support
>>> is already in the standard OpenSSL package sources, it just isn't
>>> enabled in the default build).
>>>
>>> More details available here:
>>> http://www.altechnative.net/?p=174
>>>
>>> Any chance we can have cryptodev enabled in the standard package build?
>>> I cannot see any drawbacks to having it available - when cryptodev
>>> device isn't there, it will simply fall back to the software
>>> implementation. (Note: required cryptodev header file provided by the
>>> external kernel driver).
>>
>> We use upstream Fedora mainline packages. File a bug and once its
>> enabled in Fedora it will come to the ARM platform too.
>
> Filed:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706706

That just rocks, Thanks!!

Sean