[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: disable plain NEON implementation of AES

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Tue Jun 14 10:28:49 PDT 2016


On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 04:57:22PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The plain NEON implementation of AES is only suited for v8 cores that lack
> the ARMv8 Crypto Extensions but have an implementation of the NEON tbl/tbx
> instruction that is not pathetically slow. Unfortunately, this is currently
> the empty set, so there is no point in including this implementation by
> default. So disable it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

Applied, thanks.


-Olof



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