Support native AES on PPC64 in Go 1.14 #52
Description
What is the problem you want to solve?
Currently the sioutil.NativeAES() function always returns false on PPC64 - even if the CPU has AES hardware support. This behavior is correct at the moment since a PPC64 asm implementation has landed in Go (master) but hasn't been released yet. See: golang/go@904fdb3 | https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/191969
With the next Go release (1.14) we should "enable" native AES support on PPC - when available.
How do you want to solve it?
If we run on ppc64le we can simply return true since all PPC systems supported by Go seem to have AES hardware support.
As a safety check we may add require POWER8 of the cpu package to be true to ensure that AES hardware is available. See: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/se-power8-in-core-cryptography/index.html