From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: f.fainelli@gmail.com (Florian Fainelli) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 12:06:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 00/12] bcm63xx-rng conversion to bcm2835-rng In-Reply-To: <1329593033.127526.1509649260041@email.1und1.de> References: <20171102010408.27736-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <1329593033.127526.1509649260041@email.1und1.de> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Stefan, On 11/02/2017 12:01 PM, Stefan Wahren wrote: > Hi Florian, > >> Florian Fainelli hat am 2. November 2017 um 02:03 geschrieben: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> As it usually happens when there is a fair amount of HW IP block re-use, >> competing implementations show up. In that case the BCM2835 HWRNG driver and >> the BCM63xx RNG driver have exactly the same register offsets and this is >> indeed the same piece of HW. >> >> This patch series first prepares the bcm2835-rng to be more future proof and >> support newer platforms, and the last part brings in what is necessary to >> migrate the bcm63xx-rng over to bcm2835-rng. Finally we delete bcm63xx-rng >> completely. >> >> The reason why BCM2835 RNG was kept over BCM63xx RNG is because the former >> deals correctly with a warm up count and the number of words available in the >> FIFO size. > > are these the same patches as in this branch [1]? > > https://github.com/ffainelli/linux/commits/rng-consolidation Yes, this branch contains these 12 patches. -- Florian