CPU feature detection for Nettle-3.7?

2020-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:47 AM Niels Möller wrote: > > Hi, I wonder if it would make sense to try to cut a release pretty soon > (and without any arm64 changes)? Previous release was made end of April, > and there's been quite a few improvements since then. It would be nice if cpu feature

Re: Release of Nettle-3.7?

2020-12-18 Thread Michael Weiser
Hi Niels and Maamoun, On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 07:18:24PM +0200, Maamoun TK wrote: > > One problem with the current state is that big-endian arm is most likely > > broken. I don't want to delay the release for that though, since I'm not > > able to fix it. If anyone is able to test and fix, soon

Re: Release of Nettle-3.7?

2020-12-18 Thread Maamoun TK
> > I think the powerpc64 code is in good shape now, and ready for release. Are > you aware of anything that needs fixing? > No, all what I can think of are a couple of issues that make the powerpc64 code more stable (you can check their merge requests in the repo). > One problem with the

Re: [AArch64] Optimize GHASH

2020-12-18 Thread Niels Möller
Maamoun TK writes: > It seems gcc for aarch64 doesn't support building 32-bit binaries, maybe we > should remove the check of ABI since 64-bit is the only option. Ok, that's a bit confusing. There's a command line flag for it, not -m32 but -mabi=ilp32, but that doesn't work out of the box with

Re: Release of Nettle-3.7?

2020-12-18 Thread Niels Möller
Andreas Metzler writes: > it would not count as transition > https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#transition Thanks, good to know. > cu And- I am not hinting that delaying a release until after the > start of the transition freeze would be welcome ;-)-reas Right, if

Re: [AArch64] Optimize GHASH

2020-12-18 Thread Maamoun TK
I created a couple of merge requests in the repo, with those MRs merged I think the powerpc code is stable to be included in the upcoming version of nettle. regards, Mamone On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:28 PM Maamoun TK wrote: > I wonder which assembly files we should use if target host is