Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:28:34 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: Daryl Richards <daryl@isletech.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AESNI Message-ID: <4CDDB182.4060707@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20101112202603.GD2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <4CDD562D.3050403@isletech.net> <20101112202603.GD2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On 11/12/2010 3:26 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:58:53AM -0500, Daryl Richards wrote: >> I'm wondering what the status is of AES-NI in 8-STABLE? I can find >> references to it being put into 9 back in July, with the note that it >> would be MFC'ed within a month, but as far as I've been able to find, >> nothing after that. > As a public service, since I already got several private mails, > I will state the current situation: > > AESNI merge depends on the merge of r208833 and a lot of followups to > r208833. The merge of r208833 needs r208453, that was committed to stable/8 > only recently, since it required an approval from re@. > > This delay together with lack of the time recently on my side makes me > skeptical about chances to have aesni(4) in 8.2. > > Please note that aesni(4) is not needed to use AESNI in usermode. BTW, has anyone tried merging the patch at http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2067&user=guest&pass=guest to RELENG_8's openssl ? ---Mike
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