From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dave Kim <david.kim@ncipher.com>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tim Magee <tim.magee@ncipher.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: misc: Add support for nCipher HSM devices
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 22:30:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191220213036.GA27120@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191220154738.31448-1-david.kim@ncipher.com>
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 03:47:38PM +0000, Dave Kim wrote:
> From: David Kim <david.kim@ncipher.com>
>
> This is the driver for nCipher’s Solo and Solo XC hardware security modules.
> These modules implement a proprietary command set (the ’nCore API’) to
> perform cryptographic operations - key generation, signature, and so on. HSM
> commands and their replies are passed in a serialised binary format over the
> PCIe bus via a shared memory region. Multiple commands may be in-flight at
> any one time - command processing is multi-threaded and asynchronous. A write
> operation may, therefore, deliver multiple commands, and multiple replies may
> be retrieved in one read operation.
If this is "just" a crypto accelerator, why isn't this driver using the
existing in-kernel hardware crypto api? What is lacking from it that
you need here?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-20 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-20 15:47 [PATCH v2] drivers: misc: Add support for nCipher HSM devices Dave Kim
2019-12-20 21:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-01-07 8:50 ` Kim, David
2020-01-07 9:28 ` Greg KH
2020-01-09 9:23 ` Kim, David
2020-01-09 9:36 ` Greg KH
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