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Date:      Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:40:07 +0000
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Mina_Gali=C4=87?= <me+freebsd@igalic.co>
To:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Enabling AESNI by default
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On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 20:51, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.or=
g> wrote:

> We've had the AESNI module for quite a few years now, and it has not caus=
ed any problems.
>
> I am wondering if there are any objections to including it in GENERIC, so=
 that users get the benefit without having to have the "tribal knowledge" t=
hat 'to accelerate kernel crypto (GELI, ZFS, IPSEC, etc), you need to load =
aesni.ko'

This tribal knowledge is encoded in bsdinstall when you setup encryption on=
 zfs:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/zfsboot#n1207


Mina



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