Re: kern/55155 (kernel linker errors on macppc GENERIC kernel in qemu)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55155; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/55155 (kernel linker errors on macppc GENERIC kernel in
 qemu)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:57:17 -0700 (PDT)

 (Redirecting this thread to the proper PR kern/55155)
 
 
 On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Paul Goyette wrote:
 
 >> Perhaps we should update the macppc GENERIC configuration files to
 >> include /dev/crypto as a built-in module rather than letting it be
 >> auto-loaded.
 >
 > Based on comments in macppc's GENERIC config file, this might not be
 > possible:
 >
 > ...
 > # PCI cryptographic devices
 > # (disabled, requires opencrypto framework which requires generic softints
 > #hifn*  at pci? dev ? function ?        # Hifn 7755/7811/795x
 > #ubsec* at pci? dev ? function ?        # Broadcom 5501/5601/580x/582x
 > ...
 > #pseudo-device  crypto                  # /dev/crypto device
 >                                        # (disabled, requires generic 
 > softints)
 > #pseudo-device  swcrypto                # software crypto implementation
 > ...
 
 Re-enabling crypto and swcrypto seems to work.  I ran
 
  	# cd /usr/tests/crypto
  	# atf-run | atf-report
 
 and only one test case (libcrypto/t_ciphers:evp) fails.  (Also, the
 opencrypto/t_opencrypto:arc4 test case is skipped, since arc4 is not
 implemented by swcrypto.)
 
 
 
 +--------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------+
 | Paul Goyette       | PGP Key fingerprint:     | E-mail addresses:     |
 | (Retired)          | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul%whooppee.com@localhost     |
 | Software Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette%netbsd.org@localhost   |
 +--------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------+