Re: AltiVec in the kernel

2009-12-16 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Arnd Bergmann | 2009-12-11 16:49:25 [+0100]: >On Friday 11 December 2009, Simon Richter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since there has been a thread on allowing the use of a coprocessor in >> the kernel already: I am wondering if it'd make sense to use AltiVec for >> AES in dm-crypt, and how difficult it

Re: AltiVec in the kernel

2009-12-11 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 11 December 2009, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > since there has been a thread on allowing the use of a coprocessor in > the kernel already: I am wondering if it'd make sense to use AltiVec for > AES in dm-crypt, and how difficult it would be to implement that. > > I'm using a PegasosII