Subject: Device or pseudo-device for CPU crypto?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: None <danieldk@pobox.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/11/2007 04:44:57
Hi,

I have tried to port OpenBSD support for the VIA Padlock AES logic. It
seems to be working well now. I am cleaning up the code now and am not
sure how to represent this. The Padlock is not really a device, since it
is just an additional CPU instruction. I would call it a pseudo-device,
though I haven't seen (m)any hardware-bound pseudodevices.

At any rate, the code requires opencrypto to be initialized (to register
itself), and rnd.

Any ideas?

-- Daniel