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

[Shivdas G. <shi...@gm...>]

Hi Kim,

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Shivdas Gujare



On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Kim Phillips
<kim...@fr...> wrote:
> 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
>
>