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diff --git a/share/man/man4/qat_c2xxx.4 b/share/man/man4/qat_c2xxx.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..aad0c043e548 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/qat_c2xxx.4 @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +.\"- +.\" Copyright (c) 2020 Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate) +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd July 21, 2022 +.Dt QAT_C2XXX 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm qat_c2xxx +.Nd Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver for Atom C2000 chipsets +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device crypto" +.Cd "device cryptodev" +.Cd "device qat" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following lines in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +qat_c2xxx_load="YES" +qat_c2xxxfw_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver implements +.Xr crypto 4 +support for some of the cryptographic acceleration functions of the Intel +QuickAssist (QAT) device found on Atom C2000 devices. +QAT devices are enumerated through PCIe and are thus visible in +.Xr pciconf 8 +output. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can accelerate AES in CBC, CTR, and GCM modes, +and can perform authenticated encryption combining the CBC, and CTR modes +with SHA1-HMAC and SHA2-HMAC. +The +.Nm +driver can also compute SHA1 and SHA2 digests. +The implementation of AES-GCM has a firmware-imposed constraint that the length +of any additional authenticated data (AAD) must not exceed 240 bytes. +The driver thus rejects +.Xr crypto 9 +requests that do not satisfy this constraint. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr crypto 4 , +.Xr ipsec 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr qat 4 , +.Xr random 4 , +.Xr crypto 7 , +.Xr crypto 9 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 13.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written for +.Nx +by +.An Hikaru Abe Aq Mt hikaru@iij.ad.jp . +.An Mark Johnston Aq Mt markj@FreeBSD.org +ported the driver to +.Fx . +.Sh BUGS +Some Atom C2000 QAT devices have two acceleration engines instead of one. +The +.Nm +driver currently misbehaves when both are enabled and thus does not enable +the second acceleration engine if one is present. |