Re: crypto: inside_secure - call for volunteers

["antoine.tenart@bootlin.com" <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>]

Hi Pascal,

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 01:08:27PM +0000, Pascal Van Leeuwen wrote:
> 
> Over the past weeks I have been working on the crypto driver for
> Inside Secure (EIP97/EIP197) hardware. This started out as a personal
> side project to be able to do some architectural exploration using
> real application software, but as I started fixing issues I realised
> these fixes may be generally useful. So I guess I might want to try
> upstreaming those.

That's great!

> My problem, however, is that I do not have access to any of the
> original Marvell hardware that this driver was developed for, I can
> only test things on my PCI-E based FPGA development board with much
> newer, differently configured hardware in an x86 PC. So I'm looking
> for volunteers that actually do have this Marvell HW at their disposal
> - Marvell Armada 7K or 8K e.g. Macchiatobin (Riku? You wanted a driver
> that did not need to load firmware, this your chance to help out! :-),
> Marvell Armada  3700 e.g. Espressobin and Marvell Armada 39x to be
> exact - and are willing to help me out with some testing.

I do have access to Marvell boards, having the EIP197 & EIP97 engines. I
can help testing your modifications on those boards. Do you have a
public branch somewhere I can access?

> Things that I worked on so far:
> - all registered ciphersuites now pass the testmgr compliance tests
> - fixed stability issues
> - removed dependency on external firmware images
> - added support for non-Marvell configurations of the EIP97 & EIP197
> - added support for the latest HW & FW revisions (3.1) and features
> - added support for the Xilinx FPGA development board we're using for our
>   internal development and for which we also provide images to our customers

I'm happy to see some activity on this driver :) I too was working on
making the boot test suite pass (some tests were not working since the
testmgr rework and improvement), and on performance improvement.

> Once I manage to get this upstreamed, I plan on working on improving
> performance and adding support for additional algorithms our hardware
> supports.
> 
> Anyone out there willing to contribute?

If there is a branch publicly available, I'll be happy to give it a
try.

Thanks,
Antoine

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