On 21 February 2013 16:18, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx> 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. -- Javier Martin Vista Silicon S.L. CDTUC - FASE C - Oficina S-345 Avda de los Castros s/n 39005- Santander. Cantabria. Spain +34 942 25 32 60 www.vista-silicon.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
