From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
pawel.moll@arm.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] hwrng: add mtk-sec-rng driver
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 20:16:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <299029b0-0689-c2c4-4656-36ced31ed513@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191202191146.79e6368c@why>
On 12/2/2019 11:11 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 16:12:09 +0000
> Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> (adding some more arm64 folks)
>>
>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 11:30, Neal Liu <neal.liu@mediatek.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2019-11-29 at 18:02 +0800, Lars Persson wrote:
>>>> Hi Neal,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 3:23 PM Neal Liu <neal.liu@mediatek.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For MediaTek SoCs on ARMv8 with TrustZone enabled, peripherals like
>>>>> entropy sources is not accessible from normal world (linux) and
>>>>> rather accessible from secure world (ATF/TEE) only. This driver aims
>>>>> to provide a generic interface to ATF rng service.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am working on several SoCs that also will need this kind of driver
>>>> to get entropy from Arm trusted firmware.
>>>> If you intend to make this a generic interface, please clean up the
>>>> references to MediaTek and give it a more generic name. For example
>>>> "Arm Trusted Firmware random number driver".
>>>>
>>>> It will also be helpful if the SMC call number is configurable.
>>>>
>>>> - Lars
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm trying to make this to a generic interface. I'll try to make
>>> HW/platform related dependency to be configurable and let it more
>>> generic.
>>> Thanks for your suggestion.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think it makes sense for each arm64 platform to expose an
>> entropy source via SMC calls in a slightly different way, and model it
>> as a h/w driver. Instead, we should try to standardize this, and
>> perhaps expose it via the architectural helpers that already exist
>> (get_random_seed_long() and friends), so they get plugged into the
>> kernel random pool driver directly.
>
> Absolutely. I'd love to see a standard, ARM-specified, virtualizable
> RNG that is abstracted from the HW.
Do you think we could use virtio-rng on top of a modified virtio-mmio
which instead of being backed by a hardware mailbox, could use hvc/smc
calls to signal writes to shared memory and get notifications via an
interrupt? This would also open up the doors to other virtio uses cases
beyond just RNG (e.g.: console, block devices?). If this is completely
stupid, then please disregard this comment.
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-03 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-27 14:22 [PATCH v5 0/3] MediaTek Security random number generator support Neal Liu
2019-11-27 14:22 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] soc: mediatek: add SMC fid table for SIP interface Neal Liu
2019-11-27 14:22 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] dt-bindings: rng: add bindings for MediaTek ARMv8 SoCs Neal Liu
2019-11-27 14:22 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] hwrng: add mtk-sec-rng driver Neal Liu
2019-11-27 15:03 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-11-28 15:02 ` Neal Liu
2019-11-29 10:02 ` Lars Persson
2019-11-29 11:30 ` Neal Liu
2019-12-02 16:12 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-02 19:11 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-03 4:16 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2019-12-03 11:17 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-12 5:13 ` Neal Liu
2019-12-12 11:45 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-12 14:03 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-12 14:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-03 10:17 ` Will Deacon
2019-12-12 14:43 ` Sudeep Holla
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