From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] bcm63xx-rng conversion to bcm2835-rng
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 12:06:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf0cc77c-6114-74d3-2342-b9c4a55f6800@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329593033.127526.1509649260041@email.1und1.de>
Hi Stefan,
On 11/02/2017 12:01 PM, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
>> Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> hat am 2. November 2017 um 02:03 geschrieben:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As it usually happens when there is a fair amount of HW IP block re-use,
>> competing implementations show up. In that case the BCM2835 HWRNG driver and
>> the BCM63xx RNG driver have exactly the same register offsets and this is
>> indeed the same piece of HW.
>>
>> This patch series first prepares the bcm2835-rng to be more future proof and
>> support newer platforms, and the last part brings in what is necessary to
>> migrate the bcm63xx-rng over to bcm2835-rng. Finally we delete bcm63xx-rng
>> completely.
>>
>> The reason why BCM2835 RNG was kept over BCM63xx RNG is because the former
>> deals correctly with a warm up count and the number of words available in the
>> FIFO size.
>
> are these the same patches as in this branch [1]?
>
> https://github.com/ffainelli/linux/commits/rng-consolidation
Yes, this branch contains these 12 patches.
--
Florian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-02 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-02 1:03 Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:03 ` [PATCH 01/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Obtain base register via resource Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:03 ` [PATCH 02/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Define a driver private context Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:03 ` [PATCH 03/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Move enabling to hwrng::init Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 04/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Implementation cleanup callback Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 05/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Use device managed helpers Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 06/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Rework interrupt masking Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 07/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Manage an optional clock Florian Fainelli
2017-11-04 13:50 ` Stefan Wahren
2017-11-04 17:59 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-04 18:22 ` Stefan Wahren
2017-11-04 19:37 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-04 20:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-11-04 20:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 08/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Abstract I/O accessors Florian Fainelli
2017-11-03 20:19 ` Eric Anholt
2017-11-03 22:04 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 09/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Add Broadcom MIPS " Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 10/12] dt-bindings: rng: Incorporate brcm,bcm6368.txt binding Florian Fainelli
2017-11-06 21:38 ` Rob Herring
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 11/12] hwrng: bcm2835-rng: Enable BCM2835 RNG to work on BCM63xx platforms Florian Fainelli
2017-11-04 18:27 ` Stefan Wahren
2017-11-06 20:16 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-07 6:45 ` Stefan Wahren
2017-11-07 23:27 ` Stefan Wahren
2017-11-02 1:04 ` [PATCH 12/12] hwrng: bcm63xx-rng: Remove since bcm2835-rng takes over Florian Fainelli
2017-11-03 20:18 ` Eric Anholt
2017-11-03 21:58 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-02 19:00 ` [PATCH 00/12] bcm63xx-rng conversion to bcm2835-rng Stefan Wahren
2017-11-02 19:01 ` Stefan Wahren
2017-11-02 19:06 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
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