I was also wondering about this. Presumably it's also covered in the OMAP 2420 Technical reference manual that we mere mortals are not allowed to obtain ;) (I asked Ti) Si > -----Original Message----- > From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org > [mailto:maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of > david.hagood at gmail.com > Sent: 05 October 2007 15:30 > To: maemo-users at maemo.org > Subject: Support for Crypto engine in OMAP/OMAP2 processors > > Does anybody know if any work is being done to make the > crypto engine in > the OMAP/OMAP2 processors available under Linux? > > Last night I was copying a bunch of files into my N800 via SFTP, and > noticed that SSHD was burning over 60% of the CPU doing the > crypto. (yes, > I could have used other means to do the copy e.g. USB, but > using SFTP over > the wifi link is easier as I can simply drag&drop from > Nautilus without > having to get the N800 and bring it into the computer room.) > > If the crypto engine could be made available as a kernel device, with > appropriate libraries to make it handle SSL, that would > greatly improve > those sort of things. > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
