On ARM SoC's with TrustZone enabled, peripherals like entropy sources might not be accessible to normal world (linux in this case) and rather accessible to secure world (OP-TEE in this case) only. So this driver aims to provides a generic interface to OP-TEE based random number generator service.
Example case is Developerbox based on Socionext's Synquacer SoC [1] which provides 7 thermal sensors accessible from secure world only which could be used as entropy sources (thermal/measurement noise). [1] https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/ Sumit Garg (2): dt/bindings: add bindings for optional optee rng-uuid property hwrng: add OP-TEE based rng driver .../bindings/arm/firmware/linaro,optee-tz.txt | 4 + MAINTAINERS | 5 + drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 15 ++ drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile | 1 + drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c | 273 +++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 298 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c -- 2.7.4
