From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 24 17:18:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB7D106564A for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:18:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from rincewind.paeps.cx (rincewind.paeps.cx [IPv6:2002:596a:f092::149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8183A8FC19 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rincewind.paeps.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E21A0D74404; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:18:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:18:27 +0100 From: Philip Paeps To: "Kennedy, Brendan" Message-ID: <20100224171827.GN52133@rincewind.paeps.cx> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: 356B AE02 4763 F739 2FA2 E438 2649 E628 C5D3 4D05 X-Date: Today is Setting Orange, the 55th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3176 X-Phase-of-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (79% of Full) X-Philip-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Organization: Happily Disorganized User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: "freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: [CODE RELEASE] EP80579 Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:18:28 -0000 On 2010-02-24 16:43:27 (+0000), Kennedy, Brendan wrote: > Attached is driver code which enables acceleration of cryptographic > functions through the FreeBSD OpenCrypto framework. It has been developed > for and tested with FreeBSD 7.1. Excellent - thank you Brendan! I'll read through this. :-) > If possible, we would like this driver code included alongside the hifn > crypto driver code (if any changes are required please mail me!), but we are > mainly releasing to you because we developed the driver for use with FreeBSD > 7.1 FreeBSD 7.3 is about to be released, and I'm not sure if any further 7.x releases will be done, but I would be happy to commit it to stable/7 in addition to head and (eventually) stable/8. > For more information on the EP80579 chip and related software, please see > (also released at http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/ep80579/index.htm) This is good news - we like documentation. Thanks! - Philip -- Philip Paeps Add contents and stir philip@freebsd.org