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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