Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32calgorithm by new crypto API.

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 06:28:22 EST


On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 12:25 +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> * David Woodhouse | 2008-08-04 11:12:05 [+0100]:
> >And it would be nice if we could make libcrc32c use this too, rather
> >than just the 'crypto' users.
>
> I'm not sure if I remeber correctly but I thing Herbert was planning to
> convert all users over to the crypto API to avoid compile time
> dependency.

That's one way of doing it, although it seems a little bit like overkill
in this particular case.

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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation



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