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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Fri,  1 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0000
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> What would be involved in patching Plan 9's libsec to use
> the C7's crypto instructions?

it didn't look too hard, but there's a bit of work to do in the kernel
to enable it (and enable sse for some instructions).
are there similar things on intel and amd? i haven't really kept up.
no doubt they all use different instructions and conventions so
we'll need an array of implementations.