[PATCH 0/7] arm64: marvell: add cryptographic engine support for 7k/8k

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Tue Apr 11 12:12:25 EDT 2017


Hi Herbert,
 
 On lun., avril 10 2017, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:44:25PM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> This series adds support for the Inside Secure SafeXcel EIP197
>> cryptographic engine which can be found on Marvell Armada 7k and 8k
>> boards. A new cryptographic engine driver is added, as well as the
>> relevant device tree definition for the Armada 7040 DB and 8040 DB
>> boards.
>> 
>> This driver needs two firmwares to work correctly. These firmware are
>> usually used for more advanced operations than the ones supported (as of
>> now), but we still need them to pass the data to the internal
>> cryptographic engine.
>> 
>> This series was tested in various ways on both the Armada 7040 DB and
>> the Armada 8040 DB: using the crypto framework self tests, using tcrypt
>> and while performing various transfers with iperf on top of IPsec.
>> 
>> This series is based on top of v4.11-rc1, and is available on a branch
>> (which also contains the PPv2 support for 7k/8k, to ease the process of
>> testing IPsec): https://github.com/atenart/linux  v4.11-rc1/7k8k-crypto
>> I can rebase if needed.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Antoine
>> 
>> 
>> Antoine Tenart (7):
>>   Documentation/bindings: Document the SafeXel cryptographic engine
>>     driver
>>   crypto: inside-secure: add SafeXcel EIP197 crypto engine driver
>>   MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the Inside Secure crypto driver
>>   arm64: marvell: dts: add crypto engine description for 7k/8k
>>   arm64: marvell: dts: enable the crypto engine on the Armada 7040 DB
>>   arm64: marvell: dts: enable the crypto engine on the Armada 8040 DB
>>   arm64: defconfig: enable the Safexcel crypto engine as a module
>
> I have no problems with the crypto bits.

Does it means that you agree that I apply the arm-soc related patches
(from 4 to 7) to my mvebu trees?

Thanks,

Gregory

>
> Thanks,
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