> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 7:48 PM
> To: Srujana Challa <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> [email protected]; Suheil Chandran <[email protected]>;
> Narayana Prasad Raju Athreya <[email protected]>; Sunil Kovvuri
> Goutham <[email protected]>; Linu Cherian <[email protected]>;
> Geethasowjanya Akula <[email protected]>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
> <[email protected]>; Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] drivers: crypto: add support for
> OCTEONTX2 CPT engine
>
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 02:14:34PM +0000, Srujana Challa wrote:
> >
> > Since LMT store is our platform specific, it cannot be generalized to all
> ARM64.
>
> I'm not asking you to generalise it to all of ARM64. I'm asking you to move
> this into a header file under arch/arm64 that can then be shared by both your
> crypto driver and your network driver so you don't duplicate this
> everywhere.
>
For ARM64 , except erratas other platform or machine dependent stuff are not
allowed inside arch/arm64.
Also an earlier attempt by us to add few APIs addressing 128bit operations were
not allowed by ARM folks
as they don't work in a generic way and are SOC specific.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.3/02211.html
Thanks,
Sunil.
