[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] crypto/fsl - change starting entropy delay value

York Sun yorksun at freescale.com
Tue Aug 4 17:52:33 CEST 2015



On 05/05/2015 06:48 AM, Alex Porosanu wrote:
> The entropy delay (the length in system clocks of each
> entropy sample) for the RNG4 block of CAAM is dependent
> on the frequency of the SoC. By elaborate methods, it
> has been determined that a good starting value for all
> platforms integrating the CAAM IP is 3200. Using a
> higher value has additional benefit of  speeding up
> the process of instantiating the RNG, since the entropy
> delay will be increased and instantiation of the RNG
> state handles will be reattempted by the driver. If the
> starting value is low, for certain platforms, this can
> lead to a quite lengthy process.
> This patch changes the starting value of the length of
> the entropy sample to 3200 system clocks.
> In addition to this change, the attempted entropy delay
> values are now printed on the console upon initialization
> of the RNG block.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Porosanu <alexandru.porosanu at freescale.com>
> ---

Applied to u-boot-fsl-qoriq master with minor change in subject. Thanks.

York


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