Bug#931707: linux: HW_RANDOM_OMAP disabled for arm64 --> please enable
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 03:21, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
I think the problem was rather in the tianocore firmware than device
tree - but it might be the more accurate device tree fixes it. We can
enable it again, and then re-open the bug dialog with upstream if the
bug is still there.
Riku
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> Ben Hutchings
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