Am Donnerstag, 9. April 2015, 16:58:41 schrieb Boris Brezillon: Hi Boris, >Hello, > >This is an attempt to replace the mv_cesa driver by a new one to address >some limitations of the existing driver. >From a performance and CPU load point of view the most important >limitation is the lack of DMA support, thus preventing us from chaining >crypto operations. > >I know we usually try to adapt existing drivers instead of replacing them >by new ones, but after trying to refactor the mv_cesa driver I realized it >would take longer than writing an new one from scratch. > >Here are the main features brought by this new driver: >- support for armada SoCs (up to 38x) while keeping support for older ones > (Orion and Kirkwood) >- DMA mode to offload the CPU in case of intensive crypto usage >- new algorithms: SHA256, DES and 3DES > >I'd like to thank Arnaud, who has carefully reviewed several iterations of >this driver, helped me improved my implementation, provided support for >several crypto algorithms, provided support for armada-370 and tested >the driver on different platforms, hence the SoB and dual MODULE_AUTHOR >in the driver code. Your patch 1/2 did not make it to the crypto list. To big? It is on the lkml list though. > >Best Regards, > >Boris > >Boris Brezillon (2): > crypto: add new driver for Marvell CESA > crypto: marvell/CESA: update DT bindings documentation > > .../devicetree/bindings/crypto/mv_cesa.txt | 50 +- > drivers/crypto/Kconfig | 2 + > drivers/crypto/Makefile | 2 +- > drivers/crypto/marvell/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/crypto/marvell/cesa.c | 539 ++++++++ > drivers/crypto/marvell/cesa.h | 802 ++++++++++++ > drivers/crypto/marvell/cipher.c | 761 +++++++++++ > drivers/crypto/marvell/hash.c | 1349 >++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/crypto/marvell/tdma.c | >223 ++++ > drivers/crypto/mv_cesa.c | 1193 ----------------- > drivers/crypto/mv_cesa.h | 150 --- > 11 files changed, 3716 insertions(+), 1356 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 drivers/crypto/marvell/Makefile > create mode 100644 drivers/crypto/marvell/cesa.c > create mode 100644 drivers/crypto/marvell/cesa.h > create mode 100644 drivers/crypto/marvell/cipher.c > create mode 100644 drivers/crypto/marvell/hash.c > create mode 100644 drivers/crypto/marvell/tdma.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/mv_cesa.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/mv_cesa.h Ciao Stephan -- 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
