linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] staging: ccree: add Arm TrustZone CryptoCell REE driver

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Message-ID: <CAOtvUMcwcWTWaH2xskWFzUxq3QNOH7bMR8O0ByhZ7cgfcsdO7Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:36:08 +0300
From:   Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@...aro.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad.benyossef@....com>,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@....com>,
        Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] staging: ccree: add Arm TrustZone CryptoCell REE driver

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:12:54PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> Arm TrustZone CryptoCell 700 is a family of cryptographic hardware
>> accelerators. It is supported by a long lived series of out of tree
>> drivers, which I am now in the process of unifying and upstreaming.
>> This is the first drop, supporting the new CryptoCell 712 REE.
>>
>> The code still needs some cleanup before maturing to a proper
>> upstream driver, which I am in the process of doing. However,
>> as discussion of some of the capabilities of the hardware and
>> its application to some dm-crypt and dm-verity features recently
>> took place I though it is better to do this in the open via the
>> staging tree.
>>
>> A Git repository based off of Linux 4.11-rc7 is also available at
>> https://github.com/gby/linux.git branch ccree_v2 for those inclined.
>
> If you want this in staging, I'll be glad to take it, but note then you
> can't work off of an external repo, as syncing the two is almost
> impossible and more work than you want to go through.

Once it's in the staging tree I don't need a separate repo. It was only useful
so long as I did not have an upstream tree to point people to.
>
> So, as long as this builds properly, want me to queue these up in my
> tree?

Yes, please.

Thanks,
Gilad



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Gilad Ben-Yossef
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