On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:16:02PM +0100, Joerg Roedel (joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx) wrote: > Hello Evgeniy, > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:31:11PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:08:00PM +0100, Joerg Roedel (joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > > Background: I recently bought a HIFN crypto card and would like to use > > > it under Linux without the need to use some external patchsets :) > > > > Not for now - either use acrypto [1] or ocf [2]. > > Yes, these two I meant with "external patchsets" :-) > It would be nice to have an asynchronous API in the mainstream kernel. > An the documentation says it is under development, therefore I ask :) It is - Herbert's work on stackable algo registration is a first step, although when we had async crypto discussion last time (about a year or couple ago) we was unable to get into consensus - I still think that it is quite impossible to have good async support with existing software-oriented cryptoapi, while Herbert have some ideas in mind. Work is being done, just not too fast. You can find a brief todo in archive of how Herbert planned to implement that and, if you like, get into that too - that would be very appreciated. > Joerg > > -- > Joerg Roedel > Operating System Research Center > AMD Saxony LLC & Co. KG > -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
