Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] accel/amdpk: add driver for AMD PKI accelerator

From: Gupta, Nipun
Date: Fri Apr 11 2025 - 14:21:37 EST




On 11-04-2025 10:47, Herbert Xu wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 10:21:03AM +0530, Gupta, Nipun wrote:

added crypto maintainers for comments.
IMO, as accel framework is designed to support any type of compute
accelerators, the PKI crypto accelerator in accel framework is not
completely out of place here, as also suggested at:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025031352-gyration-deceit-5563@gregkh/

Having the crypto accelerator as part of accel also enables to extract
the most performance from the HW PKI engines, given that the queue
assignment is handled per drm device open call.

There is actually a user-space interface for asymmetric crypto
through the keyring subsystem. Adding the maintainers of those
in case they wish to comment on your driver.

AFAIU after looking into it, the keyring subsystem is not to perform the data operations, but for managing keys for these operations. Kindly correct me if I am wrong here.

Thanks,
Nipun