On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:19:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > Ok, so it's all about crypto hardware requirement. In other words, if > > we accept for potential performance drop of crypto hardware, crypto > > can drop this alignment. > > It sounds to me that Herbert is saying that the VIA crypto hardware > will malfunction if not given an aligned address, rather than simply > go more slowly. Yes, in general hardware crypto that needs alignment requires it. In VIA's case it will generate a GPF. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
