qat
—
Intel QuickAssist crypto accelerator
qat* at pci? dev ? function ?
The qat
driver supports the following system-on-chips,
chipsets, and PCIe adapters, which are integrated with QuickAssist:
- Intel Atom C2000 processor
- Intel Atom C3000 processor
- Intel Xeon D-1500 processor
- Intel Xeon D-2100 processor
- Intel C620 chipset
- Intel QuickAssist Adapter 8960/8970
When the qat
driver is attached, it
automatically registers itself to accelerate DES-CBC, 3DES-CBC, AES-CBC,
HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, and HMAC-SHA512 operations for
opencrypto(9), and thus
for ipsec(4) and
crypto(4).
The qat
driver loads the firmware which is located in
/libdata/firmware/qat/, by
firmload(9).
The qat
driver first appeared in NetBSD
10.0.