linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv1 2/2] crypto: add Intel SoCFPGA crypto service driver

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Date:   Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:52:32 -0500
From:   Richard Gong <richard.gong@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dinguyen@...nel.org, richard.gong@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv1 2/2] crypto: add Intel SoCFPGA crypto service driver


I will move them to drivers/misc.

Regards,
Richard

On 8/11/20 7:34 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 08:56:22AM -0500, richard.gong@...ux.intel.com wrote:
>> From: Richard Gong <richard.gong@...el.com>
>>
>> Add Intel FPGA crypto service (FCS) driver to support new crypto services
>> on Intel SoCFPGA platforms.
>>
>> The crypto services include security certificate, image boot validation,
>> security key cancellation, get provision data, random number generation,
>> advance encrtption standard (AES) encryption and decryption services.
>>
>> To perform supporting crypto features on Intel SoCFPGA platforms, Linux
>> user-space application interacts with FPGA crypto service (FCS) driver via
>> structures defined in include/uapi/linux/intel_fcs-ioctl.h.
>>
>> The application allocates spaces for IOCTL structure to hold the contents
>> or points to the data that FCS driver needs, uses IOCTL calls to passes
>> data to kernel FCS driver for processing at low level firmware and get
>> processed data or status back form the low level firmware via FCS driver.
>>
>> The user-space application named as fcs_client is at
>> https://github.com/altera-opensource/fcs_apps/tree/fcs_client.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Gong <richard.gong@...el.com>
> 
> Nack.  This driver has nothing to do with the Crypto API.
>