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      Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 July 2026

    A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...