git: 074a91f746bd - main - Enable accelerated AES-XTS software crypto in GENERIC.

[John Baldwin]

On 1/13/21 1:18 PM, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 2:13 PM John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> The branch main has been updated by jhb:
>>
>> URL:
>> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=074a91f746bd80498a4c815aa795e5dc51b12121
>>
>> commit 074a91f746bd80498a4c815aa795e5dc51b12121
>> Author:     John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
>> AuthorDate: 2021-01-13 21:13:01 +0000
>> Commit:     John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
>> CommitDate: 2021-01-13 21:13:01 +0000
>>
>>     Enable accelerated AES-XTS software crypto in GENERIC.
>>
>>     In particular, using GELI on a root filesystem will only use
>>     accelerated software crypto drivers if they are available before the
>>     root filesystem is mounted.  While these modules can be loaded from
>>     the loader, including them in GENERIC provides a better out-of-the-box
>>     experience for users.
>>
>>     Both aesni(4) and armv8crypto(4) provide accelerated implementations
>>     of the default cipher used by GELI (AES-XTS) in addition to other
>>     ciphers.
>>
>>     Reviewed by:    mhorne, allanjude, markj
>>     Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28100
>>
>>
> How about an entry in UPDATING?

Added one in RELNTOES (missed adding a Relnotes: yes tag).  I don't know if we add
an entry to UPDATING each time GENERIC changes?  I guess people could remove lines
they might have added to loader.conf to avoid a spurious warning if they are using
GENERIC instead of a custom kernel.

-- 
John Baldwin