[PATCH 1/2] hwrng: Add support for ASPEED RNG
Oscar A Perez
linux at neuralgames.com
Tue Jan 21 02:01:08 AEDT 2020
This minimal driver adds support for the Hardware Random Number Generator
that comes with the AST2400/AST2500/AST2600 SOCs from AspeedTech.
The HRNG on these SOCs uses Ring Oscillators working together to generate
a stream of random bits that can be read by the platform via a 32bit data
register.
Signed-off-by: Oscar A Perez <linux at neuralgames.com>
---
.../devicetree/bindings/rng/aspeed-rng.yaml | 90 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 90 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/aspeed-rng.yaml
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/aspeed-rng.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/aspeed-rng.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..06070ebe1c33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/aspeed-rng.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: "http://devicetree.org/schemas/rng/aspeed-rng.yaml#"
+$schema: "http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#"
+
+
+title: Bindings for Aspeed Hardware Random Number Generator
+
+
+maintainers:
+ - Oscar A Perez <linux at neuralgames.com>
+
+
+description: |
+ The HRNG on the AST2400/AST2500/AST2600 SOCs from AspeedTech uses four Ring
+ Oscillators working together to generate a stream of random bits that can be
+ read by the platform via a 32bit data register every one microsecond.
+ All the platform has to do is to provide to the driver the 'quality' entropy
+ value, the 'mode' in which the combining ROs will generate the stream of
+ random bits and, the 'period' value that is used as a wait-time between reads
+ from the 32bit data register.
+
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ oneOf:
+ - items:
+ - enum:
+ - aspeed,ast2400-rng
+ - aspeed,ast2500-rng
+ - aspeed,ast2600-rng
+
+
+ reg:
+ description:
+ Base address and length of the register set of this block.
+ Currently 'reg' must be eight bytes wide and 32-bit aligned.
+
+ maxItems: 1
+
+
+ period:
+ description:
+ Wait time in microseconds to be used between reads.
+ The RNG on these Aspeed SOCs generates 32bit of random data
+ every one microsecond. Choose between 1 and n microseconds.
+
+ maxItems: 1
+
+
+ mode:
+ description:
+ One of the eight modes in which the four internal ROs (Ring
+ Oscillators) are combined to generate a stream of random
+ bits. The default mode is seven which is the default method
+ of combining RO random bits on these Aspeed SOCs.
+
+ maxItems: 1
+
+
+ quality:
+ description:
+ Estimated number of bits of entropy per 1024 bits read from
+ the RNG. Note that the default quality is zero which stops
+ this HRNG from automatically filling the kernel's entropy
+ pool with data.
+
+ maxItems: 1
+
+
+required:
+ - compatible
+ - reg
+ - period
+ - quality
+
+
+examples:
+ - |
+ rng: hwrng at 1e6e2074 {
+ compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-rng";
+ reg = <0x1e6e2074 0x8>;
+ period = <4>;
+ quality = <128>;
+ mode = <0x7>;
+ };
+
+
+...
--
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