Add crc8 routine

Add an implementation of the CRC8 algorithm. This is required by the TPM
emulation, but is probably useful to U-Boot in general.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/crc8.h b/include/linux/crc8.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5fd2ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/crc8.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Google, Inc
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+ */
+
+
+#ifndef __linux_crc8_h
+#define __linux_crc8_h
+
+/**
+ * crc8() - Calculate and return CRC-8 of the data
+ *
+ * This uses an x^8 + x^2 + x + 1 polynomial.  A table-based algorithm would
+ * be faster, but for only a few bytes it isn't worth the code size
+ *
+ * @vptr: Buffer to checksum
+ * @len: Length of buffer in bytes
+ * @return CRC8 checksum
+ */
+unsigned int crc8(const unsigned char *vptr, int len);
+
+#endif