On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Tim Chen wrote: > From: Tim Chen <tim.c.c...@linux.intel.com> > Subject: [PATCH] sha: Enable cpuid check for Intel SHA extensions > implementations
sha: is not a proper subsystem name x86/cpufeatures: is the correct one > Enable cpuid check for Intel SHA extensions implementations This patch does not enable any checks. It merily adds the feature bit. > The Intel Secure Hash Algorithm Extensions are designed to improve the > performance > of SHA-1 and SHA-256. This patch adds the check for X86_FEATURE_SHA_NI bit. Again there is no check. > This will allow the feature to be shown in the /proc/cpuinfo. > > The SHA extension programming guide is found in chapter 8 of the Intel > Architecture Instruction Set Extensions Programming reference: > https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/07/b7/319433-023.pdf > > Originally-by: Chandramouli Narayanan <mo...@linux.intel.com> So Mouli left the company. What's the point of having his Intel mail address here and in the Cc list? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
