AMD Geode LX crypto accelerator (glxsb)

[Mike Tancsa]

At 07:09 AM 7/10/2008, Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
>I've found, i think. The Geode handles only AES with a 128 bits key.
>
>When setkey/ipsec opens a crypto session, the driver returns an error
>(EINVAL) if the key length is != 128. So setkey fails.
>
>There is no way to tell to the crypto framework that we can do only AES
>with 128 bits keys. It is a problem in this case.

Hi,
         Yes, that appears to be it!

>I don't have any solution, I can just add a BUG section in the man
>page for this case.

Perhaps just a limitation/caveat as opposed to a 
bug :)   Thanks for porting this over!  I will 
give it a try with openvpn next.  Any plans to integrate it into the tree ?

         ---Mike