crc32 table

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <06D5F9F6F655AD4C92E28B662F7F853E021D4D9D at seaxch09.desktop.isilon.co
m>, "Matthew Fleming" writes:

>Is there an interest in another crc32 implementation for the kernel =
>which uses this polynomial and uses the SSE 4.2 instruction when =
>available?  (This support would require kib's FPU patch).

It would be a better idea to add a kernel facility to build a
CRC table to a given polynomial.  The code to do this is very
compact and would take up less space than N CRC tables which are
likely not used in most running kernels.

Poul-Henning

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