Hi Konrad, On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:26:30PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote: > Hi Eric, > > First of all, I am EXTREMELY sorry for my long overdue response.. > > I just wanted to bring up that piece of HW so as to offload crypto > tasks from the CPU, but it ended up being slower (which I suspect is > due to bw scaling not being implemented, but I might be wrong, maybe > A53+crypto is just superior..) A while ago, I benchmarked the QCE on an older SoC, and it was much slower than just using the ARMv8 crypto extensions. So I'm not surprised. I don't think QCE is really used anymore. But almost everyone uses ICE. > The goal is to have the phone run Mainline Linux *at least* at > functional parity with the BSP kernel. Both ICE and CE support are > welcome. > > Thanks for your interest and the patches you sent. There is more > sdm630 (and not only, keep watching :D) work coming. I suppose you > managed to boot your Xperia by now, but if you had issues, you should > try out my v5.10-rc3 branch from the repo you linked with the supplied > ninges_defconfig. Then you append the DTB to Image.gz and create an > Android boot image (or put Image.gz+dtb into an existing one with > abootimg -u boot.img -k Image.gz+dtb) and the phone should boot. > > Thanks once again for your interest and apologies for the time it took.. I'm already using your v5.10-rc3 branch, but ninges_defconfig isn't working for me. (Though I couldn't find the firmware file "qcom/a530_zap.elf", so I had to remove it from CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE.) Instead I'm using a kconfig based on https://github.com/SoMainline/linux/blob/marijn/android/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig which is working for me. I haven't been able to get a full Android userspace to work, and currently I'm instead just replacing the kernel in a TWRP image and booting into recovery. It's enough to get adb shell access and chroot into a Debian chroot on the userdata partition, which is enough to run android-xfstests to test the ICE support. Earlier I tried AOSP using the instructions at https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/guides/aosp-build-instructions/build-aosp-android-android-11-0-0, and also LineageOS using the instuctions at https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/kirin/build, but neither worked. That was a couple weeks ago though, so I haven't tried the very latest kernel with full Android. Let me know if you have any suggestions! Thanks, - Eric
