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author | gavin <gavin@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-02-08 21:24:12 +0000 |
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committer | gavin <gavin@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-02-08 21:24:12 +0000 |
commit | c708ada58069d42386e813d32539f06c0b8093ce (patch) | |
tree | a1b272ddc3aa4e6f1a26c3dbdc9792b8685057d3 /share/man/man4/padlock.4 | |
parent | a955ef657cbab406b88987e44fa2f14526782fb4 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-c708ada58069d42386e813d32539f06c0b8093ce.zip FreeBSD-src-c708ada58069d42386e813d32539f06c0b8093ce.tar.gz |
Install the padlock(4) man page on amd64 as well as i386, to match the
platforms where the driver itself is compiled and installed.
PR: docs/130895
Reported by: George Hartzell <hartzell alerce.com>
MFC after: 1 week
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/padlock.4 b/share/man/man4/padlock.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a74f63 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/padlock.4 @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Christian Brueffer +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd February 8, 2010 +.Dt PADLOCK 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm padlock +.Nd "driver for the cryptographic functions and RNG in VIA C3, C7 and Eden processors" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device crypto" +.Cd "device padlock" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +padlock_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The C3 and Eden processor series from VIA include hardware acceleration for +AES. +The C7 series includes hardware acceleration for AES, SHA1, SHA256 and RSA. +All of the above processor series include a hardware random number generator. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver registers itself to accelerate AES operations and, if available, HMAC/SHA1 +and HMAC/SHA256 for +.Xr crypto 4 . +It also registers itself to accelerate other HMAC algorithms, although +there is no hardware acceleration for those algorithms. +This is only needed so +.Nm +can work with +.Xr ipsec 4 . +.Pp +The hardware random number generator supplies data for the kernel +.Xr random 4 +subsystem. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr crypt 3 , +.Xr crypto 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr ipsec 4 , +.Xr random 4 , +.Xr crypto 9 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox . +The first +.Fx +release to include it was +.Fx 6.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver with AES encryption support was written by +.An Jason Wright Aq jason@OpenBSD.org . +It was ported to +.Fx +and then extended to support SHA1 and SHA256 +by +.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pjd@FreeBSD.org . +This manual page was written by +.An Christian Brueffer Aq brueffer@FreeBSD.org . |