On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Note to reviewers: > Reviewing the file aesbs-core.S may be a bit overwhelming, so if there are any > questions or concerns, please refer to the link below. This is the original > Perl > script that gets called by OpenSSL's build system during their build to > generate > the .S file on the fly. [In the case of OpenSSL, this is used in some cases to > target different assemblers or ABIs]. This arrangement is not suitable (or > required) for the kernel, so I have taken the generated .S file instead. > > http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;f=crypto/aes/asm/bsaes-armv7.pl;a=blob
You should probably capture this reference in the code, or at least in the commit log for the corresponding patch. > Note to integrators: > While this implementation is significantly faster, especially in CTR mode, it > is > unclear whether the net impact on power efficiency is favorable or not, so > please refrain from making any assumptions to that effect. That definitively should be mentioned in the commit log for patch #4. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
