Re: Advice or experience with VIA epia h/w?

[Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>]

Thus spake Dan Dulay (daniel.dulay@gmail.com) [01/03/05 01:22]:
: I am looking at PD motherboard with 2 interfaces. Does anyone know if 
: these motherboards have CPUs that support AES acceleration? I am also 
: wondering if I should wait for the CPUs that support RSA? 

Which PD motherboard?  The 6000E is an Eden CPU, thus does not (I believe)
really support any of the hardware accelerated features.  The 10000 uses the
Nehemiah core, so it at least supports the RNG (assuming its stepping is
greater than 8, which is pretty safe).

As for AES, it appears as though Nehemiah supports ACE (what VIA is calling
their hardware accelerated crypto).  Whether the 10000 has a chip on it that
falls under this categore, I don't know: the VIA naming scheme I've always
found confusing.  I, too, would appreciate any light people can shed on
this.

: For the newest motherboard and chipset, does OpenBSD support SATA? 

Does it support SATA in general?  Yes.  Does it support the chipsets on
these boards?  Check the supported hardware.

  - Damian