cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common new.sgml

Bruce A. Mah bmah at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 31 15:14:53 UTC 2006


If memory serves me right, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:33:07AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>> If memory serves me right, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:39:00PM +0000, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>>>> bmah        2006-07-25 21:39:00 UTC
>>>>
>>>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>>>
>>>>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_6)
>>>>     release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common new.sgml 
>>>>   Log:
>>>>   MFC:  Minidumps, padlock(7) VIA C7 support, enc(4), sysinstall(8) menu
>>>>   titles.
>>> padlock(4) in RELENG_6 doesn't support new crypto stuff available in VIA
>>> C7. In RELENG_6 it only supports AES encryption. I'm planning to MFC
>>> this, but with the whole work I did for crypto(9) and various crypto
>>> drivers and I don't think I'll make it before 6.2.
>> Thanks for pointing this out.  Given how the text reads now...
>>
>>       <para>The &man.padlock.4; driver now supports the cryptographic
>> 	functionality of the VIA C7 processor.</para>
>>
>> ...do you think it would be better to say something like "...supports
>> the AES encryption functions..." or just leave this out altogether?
> 
> It think we should just remove this entry. AFAIK padlock(4) recognized
> also VIA C7 CPUs before, there was just no information about this in the
> manual page. Michael, can you confirm this?
> 
> If VIA C7 was not recognized by padlock(4) from 6.0/6.1, we should add
> the info you proposed:
> 
> The padlock(4) driver now supports the AES encryption functions of the
> VIA C7 processor.

I finally nuked this entry.  Sorry it took so long...I somehow filed
this email in the wrong folder.

Thanks!

Bruce.




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