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Date:      Wed, 12 May 2010 23:45:56 +0200
From:      Fabien Thomas <fabien.thomas@netasq.com>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        fabient@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel FPU context save
Message-ID:  <3ED588EF-5565-44C9-9662-0ABFF9DF829A@netasq.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100512190205.GC83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <C4971C43-4AC9-4EC3-BB00-6B319B3DACC8@netasq.com> <20100512190205.GC83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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>> 	Hi all,
>> 
>> It seems a long standing question but i would like to known the
>> current state of an API for saving / restoring FPU state in the kernel
>> (like kernel_fpu_bebin/kernel_fpu_end in Linux).
>> 
>> The goal would be to integrate AES-NI in the crypto(9) framework.
>> 
>> Regards, Fabien
>> 
> 
> Current state of KPI for FPU context access in kernel is there:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/kern_fpu.3.patch
> 
> AESNI driver is progressing, look for the news shortly.

Great !
Tell me if you need testing.

Fabien



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