Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:09:51 +0900 From: Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.org> To: David Ehrmann <ehrmann@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: Core i5 AES acceleration Message-ID: <20100309080951.b1a37510.nork@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4B93E96B.8090002@gmail.com> References: <4B934015.8000908@gmail.com> <4B934354.4030002@elischer.org> <20100307184422.7007747d.nork@FreeBSD.org> <4B93E96B.8090002@gmail.com>
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Hi David. On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:59:07 -0800 David Ehrmann <ehrmann@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking that if I did do it, I'd start with padlock as a base. > It looks like there are maybe 6 new opcodes. Maybe we could ask the > contributor of the Linux code (an Intel employee) if he'd be willing to > also release the code under a BSD license. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-NI , we can get specification document: http://software.intel.com/file/20457 . I saw it, and consider that we can release under BSDL. Because of 'from specification'. > My problem is that I don't have a Core i5 system--I was asking because > it's an option for my new system--and I'm far from an x86 assembly expert. I have a machine equipped with Core i7 640UM, so I'll be able to test. But I'm far from an x86asm expert, too:-(.
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