Re: PATCH: Altivec support for RAID-6

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <69304d1104111812234656a606@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Antonio Vargas <windenntw@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> hpa, are you aware of any other routines which should benefit from altivec?
> 

Presumably the XOR code used by RAID-5, and quite possibly some of the
cryptography stuff.  Unlike most SIMD instruction sets, it should be
possible to write AES using Altivec.

	-hpa
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