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

[Richard Gong]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Richard Gong <richard.gong@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Nack.  This driver has nothing to do with the Crypto API.