Jivin Kim Phillips lays it down ...
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:55:29 +0200
> nikos karag <kar...@wi...> wrote:
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> >
> > Hello!
> > I'm currently deploy the OCF with talitos drives for Freescale SEC Engine utilization.
> > I made some openssl speed tests concerning sha2 algorithms and it seems that there is no gain from SEC engine.
> > Looking at the sources of OCF it seems that the used talitos version is old (2006 for SEC 2.1) and doesn't support sha2 algorithms.
> > Searching at web we can find new version of talitos e.g.
> > http://svn.dd-wrt.com:8000/browser/src/linux/universal/linux-3.3/drivers/crypto/talitos.c?rev=19208
> > My question is when the OCF will ??nvolve a new talitos version and also
> > how i can do that by my own?
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> IIRC, you should be able to use OCF's cryptosoft module to redirect
> crypto requests to the mainline linux kernel driver. Don't forget
> to disable CONFIG_OCF_TALITOS.
That is correct.
If you have a little driver experience it may not be too hard to add the
sha2 support to the existing driver, but I haven't looked at it at all so I
may be way off base,
Cheers,
Davidm
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