Hi Thomas,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
>Sent: Thursday 23 September 2021 16:46
>To: Power, Ciara <ciara.po...@intel.com>; Zhang, Roy Fan
><roy.fan.zh...@intel.com>
>Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Bronowski, PiotrX <piotrx.bronow...@intel.com>;
>gak...@marvell.com; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
><pablo.de.lara.gua...@intel.com>; Ray Kinsella <m...@ashroe.eu>
>Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] drivers/crypto: introduce IPsec-mb framework
>
>23/09/2021 17:28, Ciara Power:
>> From: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zh...@intel.com>
>>
>> This patch introduces the new framework making all common code of SW
>> crypto PMDs implementations built on top of intel-ipsec-mb library
>> shareable, also helps to reduce future effort on the code maintenance
>> and feature updates.
>
>Which PMD is it supposed to replace?
>I guess it runs only on x86?
>Please be more specific in the description above, thanks.
>

The 5 crypto PMDs that are combined into this IPsec-mb PMD in subsequent 
patches are:
- AESNI_MB
- AESNI_GCM
- KASUMI
- SNOW3G
- ZUC

There is no change from the user point of view for these PMDs, they still run 
on x86 as before and use the same EAL arguments.
I can add more detail in the v3 of this patch.

Thanks,
Ciara

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