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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API.
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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 06:35 -0400, Austin Zhang wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:12 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > You could perhaps just use 'unsigned long' here, to avoid the ifdef.
> Thanks.
> > And it would be nice if we could make libcrc32c use this too, rather
> > than just the 'crypto' users.
> From previous discussing, herbert would like to transfer the libcrc32c
> interface by new crypto because there were few user using the current
> libcrc32c interface.

Are we deprecating libcrc32c, then? Or just turning it into a wrapper
around the crypto code?

Either way, does it really make sense to force all crc32 users to pull
in the whole crypto framework? Some may get fractious about that...

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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation





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