On Feb 9, 2016, at 4:12 AM, JM <fi...@archlinux.us> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote: >> * JM <fi...@archlinux.us> [2016-02-05 04:20]: >>> To quickly bring you up to speed, the driver for Marvell's hardware >>> crypto accelerator embedded in their Armada/Kirkwood SoCs has been >>> rewritten as marvell_cesa and merged in kernel 4.2. The new driver >>> received a number of patches since and has been enabled in Debian as >>> a module in 4.4~rc4-1~exp1 (debian bug #807634), coexisting with the >>> old driver (mv_cesa). >> >> I think it would be best if you directly reported this to >> linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org >> and copied: >> Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezil...@free-electrons.com> >> Arnaud Ebalard <a...@natisbad.org> >> Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com> >> Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk> >> >> -- >> Martin Michlmayr >> http://www.cyrius.com/ > > Update: > > I reported the issue to upstream [1] but they cannot replicate it on > their hardware. I've built a vanilla 4.4.1 kernel using Debian's > .config as explained in [2] and the module still fails in the same > fashion. > > For an independent confirmation, I'd appreciate if someone with a > Kirkwood device (preferably a QNAP) could test the 4.4 kernel from > experimental and try the following: > > rmmod mv_cesa > modprobe marvell_cesa allhwsupport=1 > dmesg | tail -n 1 > > I've been asked to build a vanilla kernel again using .config provided > by Arnaud Ebalard for ReadyNAS Duo [3], but it ends up being too large > to fit in QNAP's 2MB mtd kernel partition, and I am also not sure if > it will work with the Debian userland, or which drivers I need to > enable for the QNAP to work properly (flash, rtc?), any hints would be > appreciated. > > Best regards, > Jan > > 1 > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-February/thread.html#405279 > 2 > http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-kernel-org-package > 3 > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-February/405530.html
I have a sheevaplug reserved for testing that I could try installing the linux-image-4.4.0-trunk package from Debian experimental, if that would help... Rick
