> list:ASPEED BMCs <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>; open list:All patches CC here > <qemu-devel@nongnu.org> > Cc: Troy Lee <troy_lee@aspeedtech.com> > 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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