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Diffstat (limited to 'package/openssl/Config.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | package/openssl/Config.in | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/package/openssl/Config.in b/package/openssl/Config.in index 3e09d88b8..6ba644a98 100644 --- a/package/openssl/Config.in +++ b/package/openssl/Config.in @@ -25,9 +25,14 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL_ENGINES config BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL_OCF bool "openssl ocf support" depends on BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL + select BR2_PACKAGE_OCF_LINUX help Enable openssl cryptodev (OCF) hardware acceleration support. - This requires kernel patches from the ocf-linux project otherwise - you'll just have a bigger openssl library that works as usual. + This requires the ocf linux kernel extension or you to provide a + pre-patched kernel that includes it. + If kernel support isn't available it'll just make the libraries + a tiny bit larger with a small CPU overhead when starting up and + checking for the required kernel-side support, and then falling + back to regular builtin support. http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/ |