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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:38:00 -0800
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ubsec(4) and AES
Message-ID:  <478CEF78.3020808@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080115093913.GA72710@harmless.hu>
References:  <20080115093913.GA72710@harmless.hu>

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Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I'd like to ask whether there was any updates, news, anything
> about the Broadcom cryptoaccelerators' AES support in the recent
> past. ubsec(4)[1] tells at the BUGS section, that it's awaiting
> some information from broadcom. It would be nice to have AES
> support for these cards, since the hifn(4) ones don't provide
> as much performance as the broadcom ones, according to the
> utilities in the source tree, google, and the vendors themselves.
>
> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ubsec
>   

Broadcom never gave me the ok to add the AES support; will ask again.

As to performance I believe hifn 7956 parts were on a par w/ the 5823 
but it's been a long time.  The main issue isn't the speed of the crypto 
part but the bus+dma glue.

    Sam




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