Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2016 01:24:08 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add Opal unlock support to NVMe. |
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 04:12:10PM -0700, Rafael Antognolli wrote: > This patch series implement a small set of the Opal protocol for self > encrypting devices. It's implemented only what is needed for saving a password > and unlocking a given "locking range". The password is saved on the driver and > replayed back to the device on resume from suspend to RAM. It is specifically > supporting the single user mode. > > It is not planned to implement the full Opal protocol (at least not for now).
I think the OPAL code should be a generic library outside the NVMe code so that we can use it for SATA and SAS as well, just with a little glue code for the Security Send / Receive commands to wire it up to NVMe.
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