Re: Hardware Crypto Offload on Kirkwood (SheevaPlug)

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Quoting Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 05/24/2011 07:27 PM, Alexander Boström wrote:
>> mån 2011-05-23 klockan 15:15 +0100 skrev Gordan Bobic:
>>
>>> What I'm pondering now is something like a dkms package for the
>>> cryptodev kernel module, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that
>>> dkms is a non-Fedora RHEL thing. What do you guys think would be the
>>> best way to approach it, especially since we don't have "standard"
>>> kernels at the moment?
>>
>> It's probably a lot easier to just patch your kernel build (or ask
>> whoever builds your kernel to do it). Then you won't need kernel build
>> tools installed on your little arm device.
>
> I really don't think that's a big deal. Cryptodev module takes seconds
> to build, and even if you are building your own kernel, it means you can
> just install the new kernel, and the new module with automatically be
> built for it. So it still saves effort.

I think this is a bigger deal then you assume. I sure as heck don't  
want a compiler sitting on my embedded device facing the outside world  
or on my desktop system,  just the same as I don't put a compiler on a  
production server system either. It is just as easy to compile a  
rootkit as it is a dkms.  Embedded also has space at a premium and dev  
tools and libraries can eat up space.





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