[PATCH v2 1/5] dt-bindings: rng: add RNGB compatibles for i.MX6 SoCs

Horia Geantă horia.geanta at nxp.com
Tue Jul 14 08:24:14 EDT 2020


On 7/14/2020 3:03 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 05:56:54PM +0300, Horia Geantă wrote:
>> RNGB block is found in some i.MX6 SoCs - 6SL, 6SLL, 6ULL, 6ULZ.
>> Add corresponding compatible strings.
>>
>> Note:
>>
>> Several NXP SoC from QorIQ family (P1010, P1023, P4080, P3041, P5020)
>> also have a RNGB, however it's part of the CAAM
>> (Cryptograhic Accelerator and Assurance Module) crypto accelerator.
>> In this case, RNGB is managed in the caam driver
>> (drivers/crypto/caam/), since it's tightly related to
>> the caam "job ring" interface, not to mention CAAM internally relying on
>> RNGB as source of randomness.
>>
>> On the other hand, the i.MX6 SoCs with RNGB have a DCP
>> (Data Co-Processor) crypto accelerator and this block and RNGB
>> are independent.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta at nxp.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/imx-rng.txt | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/imx-rng.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/imx-rng.txt
>> index 405c2b00ccb0..eb227db9e684 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/imx-rng.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/imx-rng.txt
>> @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Required properties:
>>                 "fsl,imx21-rnga"
>>                 "fsl,imx31-rnga" (backward compatible with "fsl,imx21-rnga")
>>                 "fsl,imx25-rngb"
>> +               "fsl,imx6sl-rngb"
>> +               "fsl,imx6sll-rngb"
>> +               "fsl,imx6ull-rngb"
> 
> These are all different? IOW, no fallback compatible?
> 
They are compatible with "fsl,imx25-rngb".
I will clarify this in the binding in v3.

Thanks,
Horia



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