Subject: How to handle the multiple aes variants on i386?

From: Adrian Bunk <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:07:30 +0100

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:49:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:41:50PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>...
> >>Not really that easy.  For x86 we have
> >>
> >>	aes
> >>	aes-586
> >>	aes-via
> >
> >
> >Where is aes-via?
> 
> drivers/crypto
> 
> 
> >>And my own personal custom-kernel preference is to use the C version of 
> >>the code on my x86 and x86-64 boxes.
> >
> >
> >That's already not possible today.
> 
> It should be.

OK, rethinking about it, your arguments sound reasonable.

Could anyone explain, what exactly happens if multiple "aes" algorithms 
are compiled into the kernel?

Choosing between the i386 asm and the generic versions seems easy, bug 
the VIA Padlock case sounds more tricky since it works only on a subset 
of the i386 architecture.

> 	Jeff

cu
Adrian

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