On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:45 PM, 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). > > (As Jan found out later, the drivers don't really coexist that well > and disabling the old driver makes the new one work.) > > Upstream is moving to the new CESA driver, so I'll disable the old one > in Debian's 4.6. > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/
Thanks, I appreciate it! For anyone on kirkwood affected by this, as a temporary workaround it's sufficient to simply delete the old mv_cesa.ko, depmod, and modprobe marvell_cesa with allhwsupport=1. This works as of 4.5.1 in testing. Best regards, Jan
