Re: 3CR990 question (Nearly unrelated to iSCSI)

[Ion Badulescu]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:00:33 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:56:37PM -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Andrew McGregor wrote:
>> > > AH permits multiple digests, they also happen to correspond to the
>> > > hardware accelerated ones on things like the 3c990...
>> Speaking of which, did this driver which was mentioned ever occur?
> 
> Two did, actually :)

Actually, the 3Com driver I cleaned up does not have support for the 
hardware crypto chip. Maybe the other driver you were referring to 
supports it?

> I hope we will see it appear in a kernel RSN

Indeed. :) That damn legalese in 3Com's license...

In the meantime, I can separately distribute it to people who need it:
<http://www.badula.org/3c990/>.

The latest version (LK1.0.1) properly supports big-endian architectures,
tested on a sparc64. 

Ion

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