[needs-packaging] Intel quickassist (QAT) : qatlib

[Hector CAO]

Intel(R) QuickAssist Technology (Intel(R) QAT) provides hardware acceleration for offloading security, authentication and compression services from the CPU, thus significantly increasing the performance and efficiency of standard platform solutions.

Its services include symmetric encryption and authentication, asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, RSA, DH and ECC, and lossless data compression.

This package provides user space libraries that allow access to Intel(R) QuickAssist devices and expose the Intel(R) QuickAssist APIs and sample codes.

[needs-packaging]:
Upstream: https://github.com/intel/qatlib
Package PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kobuk-team/+archive/ubuntu/qat-ubuntu/+packages
License: https://git.launchpad.net/~kobuk-team/ubuntu/+source/qatlib/tree/debian/copyright?h=main

Testing
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This package has been tested to run properly (sample programs) on following platform with QAT device:

Architecture: x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
  Address sizes: 46 bits physical, 57 bits virtual
  Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 256
  On-line CPU(s) list: 0-255
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
  Model name: INTEL(R) XEON(R) PLATINUM 8592+
    CPU family: 6
    Model: 207
    Thread(s) per core: 2
    Core(s) per socket: 64
    Socket(s): 2
    Stepping: 2
    CPU(s) scaling MHz: 22%
    CPU max MHz: 3900.0000
    CPU min MHz: 800.0000
    BogoMIPS: 3800.00

Intel overview on QAT
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https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-quick-assist-technology-overview.html

Debian overview on QAT
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https://wiki.debian.org/QAT

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

Hi Hector,

Reviewing brand new packages is usually a fairly involved task, much more so than updates to existing packages. As such, it is much preferable that a Canonical engineer with suitable upload permissions schedule some time explicitly for this task as part of their workload, rather than using the community sponsorship queue. For instance, you (or your manager) could either find a MOTU or Core Dev in your team to do so, or get in touch with relevant Ubuntu Engineering teams.

Unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Looking good in overall so I'll accept this package into noble-proposed. A few nitpicks I'd like you to fix at some point in time regarding the packaging:

 1. The copyright is in overall fine, but there's actually one file in the source which is MIT licensed: qatlib.spec.in. Please adjust the debian/copyright to include it with the right license.
 2. debian/patches includes 2 patches that have no header or description. Please include at least basic information about what is the rationale for these changes.

Cheers.

[Hector CAO (hectorcao)]

@sil2100 : thanks, i took notes, will address them asap