On Thu, 2019-07-18 at 17:53 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 15:53 Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Introduce 'sha' flag that corresponds to SHA-NI instruction set. > > This has two potential users, and is present in git version > > of cpuid2cpuflags (pending release once the flag is added). > > > > A bit of bikeshedding: as I understand it, SHA-NI covers SHA-1 and SHA-256, > but not SHA-3 or some of the other SHA-2 variants. Maybe name it sha-ni or > sha_ni to be more accurate? >
We already name AES-NI 'aes', so naming SHA-NI 'sha' follows suit. Besides, unless I'm mistaken NI stands for 'new instructions', so I don't see how that would be relevant to SHA algorithms supported. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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