linux-kernel - Re: hifn_795x in a MacMini?

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Message-ID: <20080714213529.GA447@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:35:29 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hifn_795x in a MacMini?

Hi Christian.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:18:09PM +0200, Christian Kujau (lists@...dbynature.de) wrote:
> Somehow this message sounds to me, as if this MacMini does have such a 
> chip. This would be surprising, as I thought the chip is a highly 
> specialized one, and expensive too. Also 
> there's no ../devices/ symlink in /sys/bus/pci/drivers/hifn795x. Still, 
> why would the driver load into the kernel when there's no such chip?

If you have appropriate hardware, then following string will be printed
in dmesg:

AES 128 ECB test has been successfully passed

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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