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27.Dd July 29, 2020
28.Dt HIFN 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm hifn
32.Nd Hifn 7751/7951/7811/7955/7956 crypto accelerator
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following lines in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device crypto"
39.Cd "device cryptodev"
40.Cd "device hifn"
41.Ed
42.Pp
43Alternatively, to load the driver as a
44module at boot time, place the following line in
45.Xr loader.conf 5 :
46.Bd -literal -offset indent
47hifn_load="YES"
48.Ed
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Nm
52driver supports various cards containing the Hifn 7751, 7951,
537811, 7955, and 7956 chipsets.
54.Pp
55The
56.Nm
57driver registers itself to accelerate
58AES (7955 and 7956 only),
59SHA1, and SHA1-HMAC operations for
60.Xr ipsec 4
61and
62.Xr crypto 4 .
63.Pp
64The Hifn
65.Tn 7951 ,
66.Tn 7811 ,
67.Tn 7955 ,
68and
69.Tn 7956
70will also supply data to the kernel
71.Xr random 4
72subsystem.
73.Sh HARDWARE
74The
75.Nm
76driver supports various cards containing the Hifn 7751, 7951,
777811, 7955, and 7956
78chipsets, such as:
79.Bl -tag -width namenamenamena -offset indent
80.It Invertex AEON
81No longer being made.
82Came as 128KB SRAM model, or 2MB DRAM model.
83.It Hifn 7751
84Reference board with 512KB SRAM.
85.It PowerCrypt
86Comes with 512KB SRAM.
87.It XL-Crypt
88Only board based on 7811 (which is faster than 7751 and has
89a random number generator).
90.It NetSec 7751
91Supports the most IPsec sessions, with 1MB SRAM.
92.It Soekris Engineering vpn1201 and vpn1211
93See
94.Pa http://www.soekris.com/ .
95Contains a 7951 and supports symmetric and random number operations.
96.It Soekris Engineering vpn1401 and vpn1411
97See
98.Pa http://www.soekris.com/ .
99Contains a 7955 and supports symmetric and random number operations.
100.El
101.Sh SEE ALSO
102.Xr crypto 4 ,
103.Xr intro 4 ,
104.Xr ipsec 4 ,
105.Xr random 4 ,
106.Xr crypto 7 ,
107.Xr crypto 9
108.Sh HISTORY
109The
110.Nm
111device driver appeared in
112.Ox 2.7 .
113The
114.Nm
115device driver was imported to
116.Fx 5.0 .
117.Sh CAVEATS
118The Hifn 9751 shares the same PCI ID.
119This chip is basically a 7751, but with the cryptographic functions missing.
120Instead, the 9751 is only capable of doing compression.
121Since we do not currently attempt to use any of these chips to do
122compression, the 9751-based cards are not useful.
123.Pp
124Support for the 7955 and 7956 is incomplete; the asymmetric crypto
125facilities are to be added and the performance is suboptimal.
126.Sh BUGS
127The 7751 chip starts out at initialization by only supporting compression.
128A proprietary algorithm, which has been reverse engineered, is required to
129unlock the cryptographic functionality of the chip.
130It is possible for vendors to make boards which have a lock ID not known
131to the driver, but all vendors currently just use the obvious ID which is
13213 bytes of 0.
133