Geom_gbde and Hardware Crypto Accelerators
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Apr 5 22:25:45 PDT 2005
In message <8ti651lgqiguv9tld6covi8ubsk2fvbggm at 4ax.com>, Mike Tancsa writes:
>On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:21:34 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
>you wrote:
>
>>After searching google and the archives I wasn't able to find any
>>current information on the status of hardware cryptographic
>>accelerators (like the Soekris vpn1401) and gbde. Can gbde harness the
>>power of one of these accelerator cards yet? If so do they provide
>>significant offloading from the processor(s)? Any comments on the
>>Soekris vpn1401 card I've been thinking about? Thanks in advance.
>
>Hi,
> It wont work. I know the authorth was thinking about adding
>VIA C3/Padlock support, but not sure the details.
There is partial support for opencrypto/hifn/vpn1401 in the p4
branch phk_gbde, but it doesn't help very much because of the high
setup overhead of the hifn chip.
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