RE: [PATCH v3 1/6] Update Kconfig and Makefile.

[Danny Tsen]

Hi Robert,

Power10+ means Power10 or later.  Other modes were not stripped by the 
perl script.

Thanks for the comments I will fix the suggestions.

-Danny

On 2/17/23 3:44 PM, Elliott, Robert (Servers) wrote:
> > +config CRYPTO_P10_AES_GCM
> > +	tristate "Stitched AES/GCM acceleration support on P10+ CPU (PPC)"
> > +	depends on PPC64 && POWER10_CPU && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> > +	select CRYPTO_LIB_AES
> > +	select CRYPTO_ALGAPI
> > +	select CRYPTO_AEAD
> > +	default m
> > +	help
> > +	  Support for cryptographic acceleration instructions on Power10+ CPU.
> > +	    This module supports stitched acceleration for AES/GCM in
> > hardware.
> Is "Power10+" a specific architecture or does that mean "Power10 or later"?
>
> Please follow the newer wording conventions for the menu item and
> help text, more like:
>
> config CRYPTO_AES_GCM_PPC_P10
>          tristate "AEAD cipher: AES in GCM mode (Power10)"
>
>          help
>            AEAD cipher: AES cipher algorithms (FIPS-197) with
> 	   GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) authenticated encryption mode (NIST SP800-38D)
>
>            Architecture: powerpc64 using:
>            - little-endian
>            - Power10 features
>
>            [some description here]
>
> Also, all the other powerpc cra_driver_names follow
> 	alg-arch
> not
> 	arch-alg
>
> so
> 	.base.cra_driver_name	= "p10_aes_gcm",
> might be better as
> 	.base.cra_driver_name	= "aes-gcm-p10",
>
> Patch 4 seems to have code for lots of other modes like CBC and XTS.
> Does the perl script strip out all of that?