[PATCH v2 1/4] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am65-main: Disable RNG node

Andrew Davis afd at ti.com
Mon Aug 22 17:11:33 PDT 2022


The hardware random number generator is used by OP-TEE and is access is
denied to other users with SoC level bus firewalls. Any access to this
device from Linux will result in firewall errors.

We could remove this node, but it is still valid device description,
and it is possible it could be re-enabled in the bootloader if OP-TEE
is not used. So only disable this node for now.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis <afd at ti.com>
---

Changes from v1:
 - Added comment in DT
 - Explained why it is only disabled in commit message

 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi
index 8919fede3cd7..b3e714e1abed 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65-main.dtsi
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ rng: rng at 4e10000 {
 			reg = <0x0 0x4e10000 0x0 0x7d>;
 			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 24 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
 			clocks = <&k3_clks 136 1>;
+			status = "disabled"; /* Used by OP-TEE */
 		};
 	};
 
-- 
2.36.1




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