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

[Peter Robinson]

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.

Peter