[U-Boot] [PATCH resend] misc/crypto: Add support for C3

[Stefan Roese]

On 12/07/2012 10:11 AM, Vipin Kumar wrote:
>> I'm not so sure about the name of this "driver" and its location in
>> drivers/misc. Is "C3" a generic crypto IP name? On which devices/SoC's
>> is it currently implemented? Perhaps the name should be a little less
> 
> It is an ST peripheral and is used in spear SoCs and could be used in 
> other ST SoCs
>
>> generic, e.g. "spear-c3" or "st-crypto-c3"...?
>>
> 
> hmm, ok. I can rename it to st-crypto-c3

Okay.

>> And if this "driver" only supports this memory fill operation for some
>> ST SoC (SPEAr?), then its perhaps better located in arch/arm/ right now.
>> Not sure.
>>
> 
> You mean arch/arm/cpu/armv7/spear13xx/ ?

Or perhaps arch/arm/lib?

On powerpc we have a special SoC specific memcpy version as well. You
might want to take a look at it:

arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_mpc5200.c

It doesn't use a special device for transfer though, only has some
alignment restrictions.

> Is the drivers/misc a special place. Why not here ?