Comment 0 for bug 1083498

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/676533:

Package: openssl
Version: 1.0.1c-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Openssl has some rather nice arm assembler optimizations. For example
on pandaboard (omap4430):

benchmark debian with patch
sha1 55836.67k -> 73599.08k
aes-128 cbc 18451.11k -> 36305.34k
aes-256 cbc 13552.30k -> 27108.31k
sha256 20092.25k -> 43469.45k
sha512 8052.74k -> 37194.28k
rsa 1024 1904.2v/S -> 3650.5v/s

The attached patch enables using arm assembler, as well as removes the
armeb configuration as the armeb port is long dead.