* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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> Fine to me too and for future variations thereof. Ingo -- 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
