Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Just looking at the specsheet of the Freescale i.MX515, and this jumped
>> out at me:
>>
>> Symmetric/Asymmetric Hashing and Random Accelerator (SAHARA) Lite is a
>> cryptographic acceleration engine security co-processor
>>
>> Implements:
>>     * Block encryption algorithms (AES, DES, and 3DES)
>>     * Hashing algorithms (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, and SHA-256)
>>     * Stream cipher algorithm (ARC4)
>>     * True hardware random number generator (TRNG)
>>
>> Does anybody know at what kernel version the support for this was added
>> (if it has already been added)?
> 
> It won't be in mainline as far as I am aware.

Ah, that's a shame.

>> And since I know the Genesi guys read this list, does the Kernel+OpenSSL
>> combo that comes with Efika have this enabled as standard? (I lent my
>> smartbook to somebody for a few days hence why I'm asking rather than
>> just checking - I thought I'd get a head start on trying to get this
>> working in the same way as it does on the Kirkwood (SheevaPlug).
> 
> I recall Matt enabling the option, I can't recall if it's in
> 2.6.31.14.20 or not, it's definitely enabled in the
> mx51_efikamx_defconfig if you checkout the latest from gitorious.

Have you got an URL handy for the relevant gitorius tree? Is there a 
patch against a kernel more recent than 2.6.31?

> I'm
> not sure if Ubuntu enables the OpenSSL combo or not, rebuilding the
> package isn't very hard if it isn't...

Yeah, just means I have to figure out how .deb builds work, I've never 
used it. I'm hoping it's vaguely similar to rpm.

Gordan
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