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

[David M. <dav...@mc...>]

Jivin Kim Phillips lays it down ...
> 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

Thanks Kim,  I think I saw the original email but I didn't see the code
posted,  in fact,  seems like I have not been getting the linux-crypto
mails for a little while :-(

Cheers,
Davidm

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