Hi,
I have a Cubietruck with ARMBIAN Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS 3.4.110-sun7i.
I now want to use the Hardware acceleration for encryption. But I'm not able to do this and i have not found a lot of Information.
I should load the sun4i_ss Kernel module, but i'm not able to find this on my cubietruck. Do I have to install an additional Package or do i have to compile the module by myself?
By now my encryption is working by software:

$ cat /proc/crypto 
name         : ecb(arc4)
driver       : ecb(arc4-generic)
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : blkcipher
blocksize    : 1
min keysize  : 1
max keysize  : 256
ivsize       : 0
geniv        : <default>

name         : stdrng
driver       : krng
module       : kernel
priority     : 200
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : rng
seedsize     : 0

name         : lzo
driver       : lzo-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : compression

name         : crc32c
driver       : crc32c-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 100
refcnt       : 2
selftest     : passed
type         : shash
blocksize    : 1
digestsize   : 4

name         : zlib
driver       : zlib-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : pcomp

name         : deflate
driver       : deflate-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : compression

name         : arc4
driver       : arc4-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : cipher
blocksize    : 1
min keysize  : 1
max keysize  : 256

name         : aes
driver       : aes-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 100
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : cipher
blocksize    : 16
min keysize  : 16
max keysize  : 32

name         : twofish
driver       : twofish-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 100
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : cipher
blocksize    : 16
min keysize  : 16
max keysize  : 32

name         : des3_ede
driver       : des3_ede-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : cipher
blocksize    : 8
min keysize  : 24
max keysize  : 24

name         : des
driver       : des-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : cipher
blocksize    : 8
min keysize  : 8
max keysize  : 8

name         : sha1
driver       : sha1-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : shash
blocksize    : 64
digestsize   : 20

name         : md5
driver       : md5-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : shash
blocksize    : 64
digestsize   : 16

name         : md4
driver       : md4-generic
module       : kernel
priority     : 0
refcnt       : 1
selftest     : passed
type         : shash
blocksize    : 64
digestsize   : 16

I hope somebody can help me and knows how to activate the hardware encryption.
Thanks for your Help
skom

You would need to switch to mainline kernel but you don't want to do that since the module seems to be broken currently. Please compare with http://sunxi.montjoie.ovhand https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/InsDjSm3J6A%5B1-25%5D

If you want to use for disk encryption, then you should wait, as it's broken, and corrupts the files.

Thank you for the information and sorry for the late answer.

It's sad that it's broken and i hope that it will be fixed soon...

Where is the best way i can see, when a fix is released?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/InsDjSm3J6A

 

probably when the developer gets an answer to this question: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/13/64

Now with the patch which included in armbian 5.10 sunxi_ss seems to work correctly.