From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregory.clement@free-electrons.com (Gregory CLEMENT) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:26:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: configs: Enabling the new Marvell's cryptographic engine driver for mvebu_v7_defconfig In-Reply-To: <20160318145131.76ffa0e1@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:51:31 +0100") References: <20160318081209.GA7394@archy.home> <20160318131432.GB8005@lunn.ch> <20160318145131.76ffa0e1@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87oaab980n.fsf@free-electrons.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org (adding Jason Cooper in CC:) Hi Thomas and Andrew On ven., mars 18 2016, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:14:32 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > >> Isn't this also applicable to mvebu v5? >> >> And your change to multi_v7_defconfig could also be applied to >> multi_v5_defconfig. > > mvebu_v5 already enables a crypto driver, but it's the old one. So > there's a decision to be taken here whether we move all the platforms > to use the new driver or not. > > The new driver has been tested on the Armada family, and I believe also > on Kirkwood. However I'm pretty sure it hasn't been tested on Dove and > Orion. > > Dove is ARMv7 and enabled in mvebu_v7_defconfig, but since neither the > old nor the new driver were enabled in mvebu_v7_defconfig, we are not > going to disrupt any existing user here by adding the new driver in the > defconfig. > > Changing mvebu_v5_defconfig, multi_v5_defconfig, orion5x_defconfig and > dove_defconfig however implies moving those defconfigs away from the > old driver, and select the new one instead. A more serious change, > IMO. For Dove I don't know if there are users for this module, but for Orion and Kirkwood as they are used in NAS product, I am pretty sure that people use it. I would like to have some feedback about users which have switched to the new driver. I think Jason did it on kirkwood. Gregory > > Best regards, > > Thomas > -- > Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons > Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering > http://free-electrons.com -- Gregory Clement, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com