On 11/05/2009 06:23 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 02:44:15PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote: >> It will take some time for binutils (gas) to support some newly added >> instructions, such as SSE4.1 instructions or the AES-NI instructions >> found in upcoming Intel CPU. >> >> To make the source code can be compiled by old binutils, .byte code is >> used instead of the assembly instruction. But the readability and >> flexibility of raw .byte code is not good. >> >> This patch solves the issue of raw .byte code via generating it via >> assembly instruction like gas macro. The syntax is as close as >> possible to real assembly instruction. >> >> Some helper macros such as MODRM is not a full feature >> implementation. It can be extended when necessary. >> >> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> > > Once Ingo acks this I'll throw it into cryptodev. > I'm not Ingo, but: Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
