[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] maintainers: update for armv8 crypto library

[Jerin Jacob]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:53 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
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> 23/10/2019 04:50, Jerin Jacob:
> > In past, there was a concern with this approach about maintaining the
> > assembly code in dpdk.org. Is this concern still valid?
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> > DPDK does not define any such interface. It was pushed to external library
> > for the reason mentioned above.
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> Yes it is questionable to host some asm code which is doing a processing
> not really specific to DPDK.

Currently, it is doing the DPDK specific processing like kernel code
as asm code.

> Also, my first thought was that this library could be used by other projects.

OK.

> Another concern about integrating this crypto lib in DPDK is to know
> whether it would have an impact on DPDK packaging and delivering?

See below.


> I don't remember any answer about legal export of this crypto processing.

I don't think, we ran through the legal check on this.
But this can be a genuine issue from the above list. Not sure how
Linux kernel handles this case.


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