Hello,
When would this feature be available?
Regards,
Ghanashyam Hegde
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Kirby Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think add support of AES accelerate to OpenSSL is much mor important.
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> Regards,
>
> Kirby Zhou
>
> from SOHU-RD +86-10-6272-8261
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *ghanashyam hegde
> *Sent:* Monday, August 09, 2010 5:38 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [rhelv5-list] Information required for the Redhat support of
> hardware acceleration on westmere (Intel Xeon series) of processors
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> Hello,
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> We want the hardware acceleration feature enabled on our machines
> installed with Redhat with westmere series of processors. Now, this feature
> comes from pure Linux Kernel 2.6.33 released by Linus Torvalds as provided
> by the link below :
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> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33#head-12719ade57a6c0dd4ea893cfb21e074512419ca7
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> In the above link, we have a new feature pertaining to cryptography
> is mentioned as pasted below:
> ghash: Add PCLMULQDQ accelerated implementation
> (commit)
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> Now, the code "PCLMULQDQ" corrosponds to the new instruction set
> introduced by Intel Xeon (westmere).
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>
> Redhat's kernel versions are a little different from the pure
> kernel. Redhat claims that the current 5.5 release kernel consists of most
> of the features of 2.6.34 kernel. However, the information which features
> are actually backported and which are not is not present in Redhat website.
> Thus I would like to know whether this feature is backported from pure Linux
> Kernel to RHEL 5.5 or not.
>
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> Additionally I need another information, whether AES-NI alogrithm is
> supported in RHEL 5.5.
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> Thanks in advance.
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>
> Regards,
> Ghanashyam Hegde
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