[oe] [PATCH 1/2] dropbear: add 0.53.1

Phil Blundell philb at gnu.org
Mon Mar 7 11:31:00 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 11:12 +0100, Eric Benard wrote:
> the changelog doesn't say it but the comment in option.h says :
> /* Set this if you want to use the DROPBEAR_SMALL_CODE option. This can save
> several kB in binary size, however will make the symmetrical ciphers (AES, DES
> etc) slower (perhaps by 50%). Recommended for most small systems. */
> 
> so maybe they prefered to get performance by default instead of saving 50kB.
> 
> We can keep this option by adding this to the recipe :
> +do_configure_prepend() {
> +       echo "#define DROPBEAR_SMALL_CODE" >>${S}/options.h
> +}
> +

Sounds like a good idea to me.  I guess the performance might be an
issue if you are doing lots of transfers with scp on a slow machine, but
I've never heard anybody complaining about it.  So I think we should
stick with SMALL_CODE if possible.

p.






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