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[Chris J Arges <1454687@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Waiting on these to land in Linus' tree.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Confirmed

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  add NX 842 hw compression patches

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Please add/include the patches for PowerPC NX coprocessor 842 memory
  compression.  They're currently in Herbert Xu's upstream tree, and
  presumably he will send them up to Linus at the 4.2 merge window.

  You can find the commits at 
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryptodev-2.6.git

  ed70b47 crypto: nx - add hardware 842 crypto comp alg
  b8e04187 crypto: nx - simplify pSeries nx842 driver
  99182a42 crypto: nx - add PowerNV platform NX-842 driver
  959e665 crypto: nx - add nx842 constraints
  7011a12 crypto: nx - add NX-842 platform frontend driver
  fdd05e4 crypto: nx - rename nx-842.c to nx-842-pseries.c
  2062c5b crypto: 842 - change 842 alg to use software
  2da572c lib: add software 842 compression/decompression
  edc424f powerpc: Add ICSWX instruction
  b130e7c powerpc: export of_get_ibm_chip_id function

  I'll update this when they are added to Linus' tree.

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