On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 12:43 +0000, Josua Mayer wrote:
> Source: linux
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> While testing Debian 10 on a Marvell 8040 SoC I found that the rng and SSH were
> coming up extremely slow, taking over a minute to start.
>
> This is caused by somebody disabling the rng driver for arm64 kernels a long time ago:
> linux (4.14.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> ...
> [ Riku Voipio ]
> * [arm64] disable CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_OMAP until the IRQ storm bug is fixed
>
> What is this IRQ storm bug? Has it been fixed? Can we re-enable this driver?
Riku, what do you think? I see that the MacchiatoBin has an Armada 8K
SoC, and there was an upstream commit in February 2018 that could be a
relevant fix:
commit b166be0044913a4ce03564e7c81f172025d78867
Author: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Date: Wed Feb 28 15:27:23 2018 +0100
hwrng: omap - Fix clock resource by adding a register clock
Ben.
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