On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Rick Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2016, at 4:12 AM, JM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote: >>> * JM <[email protected]> [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 >>> [email protected] >>> and copied: >>> Boris BREZILLON <[email protected]> >>> Arnaud Ebalard <[email protected]> >>> Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> >>> Russell King <[email protected]> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >
Please give it a shot! Best regards, Jan
