[PATCH 0/3] crypto: sahara: Add support for SAHARA in i.MX27.

[javier Martin]

On 21 February 2013 16:18, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 03:18:36PM +0100, javier Martin wrote:
>> Hi Arnd,
>>
>> On 21 February 2013 13:59, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 21 February 2013, Javier Martin wrote:
>> >> This series of patches provide AES-ECB and AES-CBC support
>> >> for the SAHARA2 cryptographic accelerator which is inside the i.MX27 SoC.
>> >> It is expected that more algorithms will be supported in the future.
>> >>
>> >> For testing, a Visstrim M10 board has been used and the code related
>> >> to this platform has been included too.
>> >
>> > As a new device driver, this needs to be supported on the DT based imx27
>> > machines, while support for the individual board files seems unnecessary.
>> >
>> > How about converting the Visstrim M10 board file over to DT so you don't
>> > have to add any more infrastructure for imx that we will just have to
>> > remove again one day?
>>
>> We know about the existence of DT and the constant migration process
>> that is taking place towards it.
>>
>> Moreover we are strongly interested in converting the Visstrim SM10
>> platform to DT. Unfortunately, there are several issues that need to
>> be solved so that Visstrim M10 can be fully converted to DT:
>> - full SoC camera DT support
>> - DT support for ov7670
>> - pinctrl support for i.MX27
>
> For the pinctrl stuff I suggest doing what we have done for the newer
> i.MX SoCs before we had pinctrl: Match by board compatible string and
> call into the board code for using the static pinctrl tables which are
> already there. I would like to have propert pinctrl support for the
> older i.MX, but probably the motivation for writing it is quite low for
> the older SoCs.

OK, I take a look at it.

> We have a patch in the queue converting the clock lookups for i.MX27 to
> dt which should be ready for posting soon.

Great.

> Then the main road blockers should be out of the way to get rid of the
> bulk of the board code.


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