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27.Dd July 21, 2022
28.Dt QAT_C2XXX 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm qat_c2xxx
32.Nd Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver for Atom C2000 chipsets
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_c2xxx_load="YES"
48qat_c2xxxfw_load="YES"
49.Ed
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53driver implements
54.Xr crypto 4
55support for some of the cryptographic acceleration functions of the Intel
56QuickAssist (QAT) device found on Atom C2000 devices.
57QAT devices are enumerated through PCIe and are thus visible in
58.Xr pciconf 8
59output.
60.Pp
61The
62.Nm
63driver can accelerate AES in CBC, CTR, and GCM modes,
64and can perform authenticated encryption combining the CBC, and CTR modes
65with SHA1-HMAC and SHA2-HMAC.
66The
67.Nm
68driver can also compute SHA1 and SHA2 digests.
69The implementation of AES-GCM has a firmware-imposed constraint that the length
70of any additional authenticated data (AAD) must not exceed 240 bytes.
71The driver thus rejects
72.Xr crypto 9
73requests that do not satisfy this constraint.
74.Sh SEE ALSO
75.Xr crypto 4 ,
76.Xr ipsec 4 ,
77.Xr pci 4 ,
78.Xr qat 4 ,
79.Xr random 4 ,
80.Xr crypto 7 ,
81.Xr crypto 9
82.Sh HISTORY
83The
84.Nm
85driver first appeared in
86.Fx 13.0 .
87.Sh AUTHORS
88The
89.Nm
90driver was written for
91.Nx
92by
93.An Hikaru Abe Aq Mt hikaru@iij.ad.jp .
94.An Mark Johnston Aq Mt markj@FreeBSD.org
95ported the driver to
96.Fx .
97.Sh BUGS
98Some Atom C2000 QAT devices have two acceleration engines instead of one.
99The
100.Nm
101driver currently misbehaves when both are enabled and thus does not enable
102the second acceleration engine if one is present.
103