Re: MACsec hardware offloading

2018-07-13 Thread Antoine Tenart
Hi Andrew, On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 06:20:02PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 04:46:08PM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote: > > > One important point about adding MACsec offloading in Linux is this can > > be done in either the MAC or the PHY. While I'll be working on making > >

Re: MACsec hardware offloading

2018-07-13 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 04:46:08PM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote: > Hello, > > Linux has a software implementation of the MACsec standard but so far, > to my knowledge, no hardware offloading support was developed and sent > upstream. Mellonex is usually the leader in this sort of thing. Adding

MACsec hardware offloading

2018-07-13 Thread Antoine Tenart
Hello, Linux has a software implementation of the MACsec standard but so far, to my knowledge, no hardware offloading support was developed and sent upstream. I am working on a PHY that has an embedded MACsec engine and would like to add support for MACsec hardware offloading in Linux in order