From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH resend] misc/crypto: Add support for C3
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:25:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C1B61B.20407@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C1B2A7.9040909@st.com>
On 12/07/2012 10:11 AM, Vipin Kumar wrote:
>> I'm not so sure about the name of this "driver" and its location in
>> drivers/misc. Is "C3" a generic crypto IP name? On which devices/SoC's
>> is it currently implemented? Perhaps the name should be a little less
>
> It is an ST peripheral and is used in spear SoCs and could be used in
> other ST SoCs
>
>> generic, e.g. "spear-c3" or "st-crypto-c3"...?
>>
>
> hmm, ok. I can rename it to st-crypto-c3
Okay.
>> And if this "driver" only supports this memory fill operation for some
>> ST SoC (SPEAr?), then its perhaps better located in arch/arm/ right now.
>> Not sure.
>>
>
> You mean arch/arm/cpu/armv7/spear13xx/ ?
Or perhaps arch/arm/lib?
On powerpc we have a special SoC specific memcpy version as well. You
might want to take a look at it:
arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_mpc5200.c
It doesn't use a special device for transfer though, only has some
alignment restrictions.
> Is the drivers/misc a special place. Why not here ?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-07 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-06 9:15 [U-Boot] [PATCH resend] misc/crypto: Add support for C3 Vipin Kumar
2012-12-06 11:56 ` Stefan Roese
2012-12-07 9:11 ` Vipin Kumar
2012-12-07 9:25 ` Stefan Roese [this message]
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