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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:04:00 +0300
From:   Mikhail Rudenko <mike.rudenko@...il.com>
To:     Corentin LABBE <clabbe@...libre.com>
Cc:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Lin Jinhan <troy.lin@...k-chips.com>, wevsty <ty@...s.org>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        Lin Huang <hl@...k-chips.com>,
        Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw_random: rockchip: import driver from vendor tree


On 2022-11-22 at 14:29 +01, Corentin LABBE <clabbe@...libre.com> wrote:

> Le Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 09:04:07PM +0300, Mikhail Rudenko a écrit :
>>
>> On 2022-09-29 at 09:45 +02, LABBE Corentin <clabbe@...libre.com> wrote:
>> > Le Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 11:39:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
>> >> On 2022-09-27 21:46, LABBE Corentin wrote:
>> >> > Le Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 06:37:53PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
>> >> > > On 2022-09-20 10:35, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> >> > > > On 2022-09-19 22:00, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> >> > > > > The Rockchip driver has long existed out of tree, but not upstream.
>> >> > > > > There is support for it upstream in u-boot, but not in Linux proper.
>> >> > > > > This commit imports the GPLv2 driver written by Lin Jinhan, together
>> >> > > > > with the DTS and config blobs from Wevsty.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Note that Corentin has a series enabling the full crypto driver for
>> >> > > > RK3328 and RK3399[1], so it would seem more sensible to add TRNG support
>> >> > > > to that. Having confliciting compatibles for the same hardware that
>> >> > > > force the user to change their DT to choose one functionality or the
>> >> > > > other isn't good (plus there's also no binding for this one).
>> >> > >
>> >> > > It might make sense for the cryptov1-rng driver (I haven't checked). For
>> >> > > the cryptov2-rng driver, I looked at the RK3568 TRM (I can't find the
>> >> > > RK3588 one), and from what I understand crypto and TRNG are two
>> >> > > different devices, using different address spaces, clock, reset and
>> >> > > interrupts. The vendor kernel uses two different drivers.
>> >> > >
>> >> >
>> >> > I confirm that TRNG is not on the same IP on rk3568, something I didnt remark when doing my V2 driver. (I need to remove rng clock from rk3568 dt).
>> >> > But the rk3588 crypto IP and the TRNG are in the same device.
>> >>
>> >> Ok, thanks for confirming about the rk3568. It seems the only one in the
>> >> family with separate devices for TRNG and crypto. Does it means we need
>> >> a separate TRNG driver only for it? Or could we handle it the same way
>> >> than for instance rk3588 anyway?
>> >
>> > I just got now the part 1 of rk3588 TRM which I has missing and it show some conflicting information.
>> > rk3588 seems to have both a dedicated TRNG (TRNG_NS/TRNG_S) with dedicated address space and a TRNG inside the crypto IP.
>> > But for the moment, the TRNG inside crypto IP seems defective.
>>
>> So what's the ultimate decision? Does anyone work on merging this into
>> the existing crypto driver? I have a use case with an rk3399-based board,
>> where having hardware rng enhances boot times dramatically (at least for
>> some userspaces; see also [1]).
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216502
>>
>
> Hello
>
> I started to work on adding RNG to rk3288_crypto.
> I need to publish the work on my github and take time to send it for review.

Glad to hear you are working on this. Please cc me when posting patches :)

>
> Regards

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Best regards,
Mikhail Rudenko