Re: Intel QuickAssist support?

Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:20:51 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:11:59AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
> In other words: it's a vendor-independent interface that manufacturers of 
> hardware crypto acceleration can use to provide hardware crypto, make it  
> available via a standard instruction set / driver and thus reduce driver  
> development efforts.

Really?  Last I checked, the only implementation of the accellerator side
was restrictively licensed for-pay FPGA code for the proprietary FPGA
built into one rather strange Intel SoC...

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Thor Lancelot Simon	                               [email protected]
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