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27.Dd May 7, 2021
28.Dt QAT 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm qat
32.Nd Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver
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 qat"
41.Ed
42.Pp
43Alternatively, to load the driver as a
44module at boot time, place the following lines in
45.Xr loader.conf 5 :
46.Bd -literal -offset indent
47qat_load="YES"
48qat_c2xxxfw_load="YES"
49qat_c3xxxfw_load="YES"
50qat_c62xfw_load="YES"
51qat_d15xxfw_load="YES"
52qat_dh895xccfw_load="YES"
53.Ed
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56.Nm
57driver implements
58.Xr crypto 4
59support for some of the cryptographic acceleration functions of the Intel
60QuickAssist (QAT) device.
61The
62.Nm
63driver supports the QAT devices integrated with Atom C2000 and C3000 and Xeon
64C620 and D-1500 platforms, and the Intel QAT Adapter 8950.
65Other platforms and adapters not listed here may also be supported.
66QAT devices are enumerated through PCIe and are thus visible in
67.Xr pciconf 8
68output.
69.Pp
70The
71.Nm
72driver can accelerate AES in CBC, CTR, XTS (except for the C2000) and GCM modes,
73and can perform authenticated encryption combining the CBC, CTR and XTS modes
74with SHA1-HMAC and SHA2-HMAC.
75The
76.Nm
77driver can also compute SHA1 and SHA2 digests.
78The implementation of AES-GCM has a firmware-imposed constraint that the length
79of any additional authenticated data (AAD) must not exceed 240 bytes.
80The driver thus rejects
81.Xr crypto 9
82requests that do not satisfy this constraint.
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr crypto 4 ,
85.Xr ipsec 4 ,
86.Xr pci 4 ,
87.Xr random 4 ,
88.Xr crypto 7 ,
89.Xr crypto 9
90.Sh HISTORY
91The
92.Nm
93driver first appeared in
94.Fx 13.0 .
95.Sh AUTHORS
96The
97.Nm
98driver was written for
99.Nx
100by
101.An Hikaru Abe Aq Mt hikaru@iij.ad.jp .
102.An Mark Johnston Aq Mt markj@FreeBSD.org
103ported the driver to
104.Fx .
105.Sh BUGS
106Some Atom C2000 QAT devices have two acceleration engines instead of one.
107The
108.Nm
109driver currently misbehaves when both are enabled and thus does not enable
110the second acceleration engine if one is present.
111