Submitted by: David McCullough <david_mccullough@securecomputing.com>
Approved by: steve@openssl.org
If -DHAVE_CRYPTODEV is set enable cryptodev support
is to have a placeholder to small routines, which can be written only
in assembler. In IA-32 case this includes processor capability
identification and access to Time-Stamp Counter. As discussed earlier
OPENSSL_ia32cap is introduced to control recently added SSE2 code
pathes (see docs/crypto/OPENSSL_ia32cap.pod). For the moment the
code is operational on ELF platforms only. I haven't checked it yet,
but I have all reasons to believe that Windows build should fail to
link too. I'll be looking into it shortly...
engine with something they claim is better. I have nothing to compare to,
and I assume they know what they're talking about. The interesting part with
this one is that it's loaded by default on OpenBSD systems.
This change was originally introduced in OpenBSD's tracking of OpenSSL.