Commit cca3ea1e authored by Andy Polyakov's avatar Andy Polyakov
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OPENSSL_ia32cap.pod update.

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@@ -21,14 +21,16 @@ manipulated afterwards to modify crypto library behaviour. For the
moment of this writing seven bits are significant, namely:

1. bit #4 denoting presence of Time-Stamp Counter.
2. bit #20, reserved by Intel, is used to choose between RC4 code
2. bit #20, reserved by Intel, is used to choose among RC4 code
   paths;
3. bit #23 denoting MMX support;
4. bit #25 denoting SSE support;
5. bit #26 denoting SSE2 support;
6. bit #28 denoting Hyperthreading, which is used to distiguish
   cores with shared cache;
7. bit #57 denoting Intel AES instruction set extension;
7. bit #30, reserved by Intel, is used to choose among RC4 code
   paths;
8. bit #57 denoting Intel AES instruction set extension;

For example, clearing bit #26 at run-time disables high-performance
SSE2 code present in the crypto library. You might have to do this if