Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: crc32c-pclmul - Use pmovzxdq to shrink K_table

[Jan Beulich]

>>> "George Spelvin" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> 05/28/14 4:40 PM >>>
>Jan: Is support for SLE10's pre-2.18 binutils still required?
>Your PEXTRD fix was only a year ago, so I expect, but I wanted to ask.

I'd much appreciate if I would be able to build the kernel that way for another while.

>Two other minor additional changes:
>
>1. The current code unnecessarily puts the table in the read-write
   >.data section.  Moved to .text.

Putting data into .text seems wrong - it should go into .rodata.

Jan

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