Re: [Ocf-linux-users] Clarification regarding kernel talitos & OCF talitios driver

[Kim P. <kim...@fr...>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:50:29 +1000
David McCullough <dav...@mc...> wrote:

> Jivin Shivdas Gujare lays it down ...
> > do you know any other way to access kernel hardware acceleration
> > drivers from userspace
> > other than using OCF framework?
> 
> There are a few OCF like (and cryptodev compatible) variants.  I don't know
> of enything specific for linux that is usable and potentially better,

Linus recently pulled this:

commit 03c8efc1ffeb6b82a22c1af8dd908af349563314
Author: Herbert Xu <he...@go...>
Date:   Tue Oct 19 21:12:39 2010 +0800

    crypto: af_alg - User-space interface for Crypto API

and here's Herbert original post that has an example userspace call
sequence:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lin...@vg.../msg04903.html

Cheers,

Kim