[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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