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authorSam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>2003-10-08 23:57:50 +0000
committerSam Leffler <sam@FreeBSD.org>2003-10-08 23:57:50 +0000
commitd3087931a9256a7b0d94a70313ed6fe7b9417647 (patch)
treec2d211d5ec0fc9bf639b552f396711ada4382c02
parent9c1422886606b96233eabe34fd7134da95b7cf5a (diff)
Notes
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/hifn.433
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/hifn.4 b/share/man/man4/hifn.4
index c574d39d70e6..7294e06fa27d 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/hifn.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/hifn.4
@@ -27,19 +27,19 @@
.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd November 21, 2002
+.Dd October 8, 2003
.Dt HIFN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm hifn
-.Nd Hifn 7751/7951/7811 crypto accelerator
+.Nd Hifn 7751/7951/7811/7955/7956 crypto accelerator
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm device hifn
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-driver supports various cards containing the Hifn 7751, Hifn 7951, or
-Hifn 7811
+driver supports various cards containing the Hifn 7751, 7951,
+7811, 7955, and 7956
chipsets, such as
.Bl -tag -width namenamenamena -offset indent
.It Invertex AEON
@@ -64,20 +64,27 @@ Supports the most IPsec sessions, with 1MB SRAM.
See
.Pa http://www.soekris.com/ .
Contains a 7951 and supports symmetric and random number operations.
+.It Soekris Engineering vpn1401 and vpn1411
+See
+.Pa http://www.soekris.com/ .
+Contains a 7955 and supports symmetric and random number operations.
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
-driver registers itself to accelerate DES, Triple-DES, ARC4, MD5,
+driver registers itself to accelerate DES, Triple-DES,
+AES (7955 and 7956 only), ARC4, MD5,
MD5-HMAC, SHA1, and SHA1-HMAC operations for
.Xr ipsec 4
and
.Xr crypto 4 .
.Pp
-The
-.Tn Hifn 7951
+The Hifn
+.Tn 7951 ,
+.Tn 7811 ,
+.Tn 7955 ,
and
-.Tn Hifn 7811
+.Tn 7956
will also supply data to the kernel
.Xr random 4
subsystem.
@@ -96,16 +103,20 @@ to the driver, but all vendors currently just use the obvious ID which is
.Xr random 4 ,
.Xr crypto 9
.Sh CAVEATS
-The Hifn 9751 shares the same PCI id.
+The Hifn 9751 shares the same PCI ID.
This chip is basically a 7751, but with the cryptographic functions missing.
Instead, the 9751 is only capable of doing compression.
Since we do not currently attempt to use any of these chips to do
compression, the 9751-based cards are not useful.
+.Pp
+Support for the 7955 and 7956 is incomplete; the asymetric crypto
+facilities are to be added and the performance is suboptimal.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver appeared in
-OpenBSD 2.7.
+.Ox 2.7 .
The
.Nm
-device driver was imported to FreeBSD in 5.0.
+device driver was imported to
+.Fx 5.0 .