is anyone maintaining hifn(4)?

emily ingalls <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:25:56 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hi,

i recently got a card that uses a Hifn 7955, and figured i'd take a look =
at the driver for it while i was setting it up. i almost immediately =
found issues that would likely cause hangs or crashes (maybe even damage =
to the chip, not sure) on some machines, possibly unexpectedly slow =
operation on others, and could have unexpected and hard to detect side =
effects elsewhere due to possible clock instability.

i have a vested interest in having this driver work properly and =
securely in NetBSD, and i'm interested in sending in patches and =
possibly doing a more extensive audit/rewrite, but it looks like the =
driver is currently disabled, and there's been little work the past few =
years that hasn't been pulling changes from openbsd. so... is anyone =
maintaining it at all?

would i be better off going to OpenBSD for this, and then trying to =
merge updates here once they're accepted there (despite having little =
interest in OpenBSD personally)?=