Re: [Openvpn-devel] linux openvpn development job

2009-04-29 Thread Benny Amorsen
"Karl O. Pinc" writes: > Doesn't the kernel care whether userspace has direct access to > hardware? If userspace has the right privileges, then no. The X server is an example of this. > Seems to me that the kernel does more than abstract hardware, it also > protects hardware by managing concurr

Re: [Openvpn-devel] linux openvpn development job

2009-04-29 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 04/29/2009 09:09:31 AM, Benny Amorsen wrote: Siim Põder writes: > Are you sure crypto accelerators allow DMA from user memory? I don't > know for sure either, but I would suspect that they would work like any > other device: copy to kernel, DMA to device, DMA back to kernel, copy to > user.

Re: [Openvpn-devel] linux openvpn development job

2009-04-29 Thread Benny Amorsen
Siim Põder writes: > Are you sure crypto accelerators allow DMA from user memory? I don't > know for sure either, but I would suspect that they would work like any > other device: copy to kernel, DMA to device, DMA back to kernel, copy to > user. Devices don't care if memory belongs to user or k

Re: [Openvpn-devel] rc15 rpm spec glitches

2009-04-29 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Oh... it was missing. James, Attached is a fix for rpm spec (pkcs11) and the inclusion of the management directory. Still waiting for merge of my previous work. Alon. On 4/29/09, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: > > because this dir doesn't exist any more, at least not in > openvpn-2.1_rc15.tar.g

Re: [Openvpn-devel] rc15 rpm spec glitches

2009-04-29 Thread Aleksandar Ivanisevic
because this dir doesn't exist any more, at least not in openvpn-2.1_rc15.tar.gz, so the build fails. Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Why did you remove the management from doc? On 4/28/09, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: ok, attached Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Yes, I don't think it is maintained. Please

Re: [Openvpn-devel] rc15 rpm spec glitches

2009-04-29 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Why did you remove the management from doc? On 4/28/09, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: > > ok, attached > > > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > Yes, I don't think it is maintained. > > > > Please send uniform diff. > > > > Use: "diff -urNp" > > > > > > >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] linux openvpn development job

2009-04-29 Thread Siim Põder
Hi David Sommerseth wrote: > The HW accelerator will not have that extreme processing power as an HSM, > but as they are working on the same internal bus as the rest of the > hardware and closer to the encryption/decryption needing software, it can > transfer smaller packages much more quickly and