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From:   Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Date:   Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:33:26 +0300
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Subject: Re: Fw: Arm CryptoCell driver -- default Y, even on machines where it
 is obviously useless
To:     Gilad Ben Yossef <Gilad.BenYossef@arm.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
        Hadar Gat <hadar.gat@arm.com>
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        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> > Sent: Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:44
> > To: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; Hadar Gat
> > <Hadar.Gat@arm.com>; herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
> > Subject: Arm CryptoCell driver -- default Y, even on machines where it =
is
> > obviously useless
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm configuring kernel for x86, and I get offered HW_RANDOM_CCTRNG with
> > default=3DY, and help text suggesting I should enable it.
> >
> > That's... two wrong suggestions, right?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Pavel
...
> ________________________________________
> From: Hadar Gat <Hadar.Gat@arm.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:31 PM
> To: Pavel Machek; kernel list; herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
> Cc: Ofir Drang; Gilad Ben Yossef; nd
> Subject: RE: Arm CryptoCell driver -- default Y, even on machines where i=
t is obviously useless
>
> Hi Pavel,
> I think you got it right..
> Indeed, Arm CryptoCell CCTRNG driver couldn't be used and obviously usele=
ss if the Arm CryptoCell HW does not exist in the system.

There's a delicate point here though - CryptoCell is an independent
hardware block, it is not tied to a particular CPU architecture.
There are SoCs with none-Arm architecture CPU using it.

So I would say whatever the answer is, it should be the same for any
generic embedded style HW block.

And the help text is not architecture specific anyway, is it not..?

Gilad


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Gilad Ben-Yossef
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values of =CE=B2 will give rise to dom!