RE: [PATCH v1 0/5] Add ASPEED ACRY RSA model for the AST2600

Jamin Lin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.nongnu.qemu-arm,org.nongnu.qemu-devel
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> list:ASPEED BMCs <[email protected]>; open list:All patches CC here
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: Troy Lee <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] Add ASPEED ACRY RSA model for the AST2600
> 
> On 8/13/26 08:24, Jamin Lin wrote:
> > This series adds a model of the ASPEED ACRY engine found on the
> > AST2600 SoC, wires it into the SoC, and adds a qtest.
> >
> > The ACRY engine performs RSA modular exponentiation (c = m^e mod n).
> > It DMAs the operands (data, exponent, and modulus) from guest DRAM and
> > writes the result to a dedicated 64 KiB SRAM region.
> >
> > Guest firmware uses the engine for RSA signature verification during boot.
> > Without a model, the guest starts the engine and waits indefinitely
> > for a completion interrupt, causing the boot to hang.
> >
> > The model uses QEMU's generic akcipher API to perform raw (unpadded)
> RSA.
> > Raw RSA is currently supported only by the libgcrypt backend. When it
> > is unavailable, the engine still completes and raises its interrupt,
> > but returns an all-zero result. This allows the guest's signature
> > verification to fail cleanly instead of hanging. The qtest is skipped
> > when the selected crypto backend does not support raw RSA.
> 
> One can still use -Dgcrypt=enabled when gnutls is installed.
> 

Will update

Thanks,
Jamin
> C.
> 
> >
> > Although the hardware documentation describes both RSA and ECDSA
> > support, ECDSA is known to be broken on this hardware and is therefore not
> modeled.
> >
> > v1:
> >   1. Add ASPEED ACRY RSA model for the AST2600
> >   2. Add qtest for AST2600 ASPEED ACRY RSA model
> >
> > Jamin Lin (5):
> >    hw/misc/aspeed_acry: Add ASPEED ACRY model
> >    hw/arm/aspeed_ast2600: Introduce the ACRY SRAM
> >    hw/arm/aspeed_soc: Add the ACRY model to AspeedSoCState
> >    hw/arm/aspeed_ast2600: Wire up the ACRY model
> >    tests/qtest/aspeed-acry-test: Add RSA ModExp tests
> >
> >   include/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.h    |   3 +
> >   include/hw/misc/aspeed_acry.h  |  50 ++++
> >   hw/arm/aspeed_ast2600.c        |  33 +++
> >   hw/misc/aspeed_acry.c          | 447
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   tests/qtest/aspeed-acry-test.c | 408 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   hw/misc/meson.build            |   1 +
> >   hw/misc/trace-events           |   6 +
> >   tests/qtest/meson.build        |   5 +-
> >   8 files changed, 952 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >   create mode 100644 include/hw/misc/aspeed_acry.h
> >   create mode 100644 hw/misc/aspeed_acry.c
> >   create mode 100644 tests/qtest/aspeed-acry-test.c
> >
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