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QAT_C2XXX(4)		    Kernel Interfaces Manual		  QAT_C2XXX(4)

NAME
       qat_c2xxx  --  Intel QuickAssist	Technology (QAT) driver	for Atom C2000
       chipsets

SYNOPSIS
       To compile this driver into the kernel, place the  following  lines  in
       your kernel configuration file:

	     device crypto
	     device cryptodev
	     device qat

       Alternatively,  to  load	the driver as a	module at boot time, place the
       following lines in loader.conf(5):

	     qat_c2xxx_load="YES"
	     qat_c2xxxfw_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
       The qat_c2xxx driver implements crypto(4) support for some of the cryp-
       tographic acceleration functions	of the Intel QuickAssist (QAT)	device
       found  on  Atom C2000 devices.  QAT devices are enumerated through PCIe
       and are thus visible in pciconf(8) output.

       The qat_c2xxx 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 qat_c2xxx 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 crypto(9) re-
       quests that do not satisfy this constraint.

SEE ALSO
       crypto(4), ipsec(4), pci(4), qat(4), random(4), crypto(7), crypto(9)

HISTORY
       The qat_c2xxx driver first appeared in FreeBSD 13.0.

AUTHORS
       The   qat_c2xxx	 driver	  was	written	  for  NetBSD  by  Hikaru  Abe
       <hikaru@iij.ad.jp>.
       Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> ported	the driver to FreeBSD.

BUGS
       Some Atom C2000 QAT devices have	two acceleration  engines  instead  of
       one.   The  qat_c2xxx driver currently misbehaves when both are enabled
       and thus	does not enable	the  second  acceleration  engine  if  one  is
       present.

FreeBSD	14.3			 July 21, 2022			  QAT_C2XXX(4)

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