Solved Upgraded FreeBSD 12.3 to 13.1 has not cryptodev module in /boot/loader.conf file

[Kaminar]

In a fresh installation of FreeBSD 13.1, the cryptodev module is loaded in /boot/loader.conf. But after upgrade FreeBSD 12.3 to 13.1, the cryptodev module is not in the /boot/loader.conf file. What is the cryptodev module? Is it needed for something important?

 

[Alain De Vos]

Did you lost functionality ?
This is the man page, no idea what it's good for,

cryptodev(4)

www.freebsd.org

 

[Kaminar]

I'm preparing for upgrade to FreeBSD 13 and I don't know if the cryptodev module is necessary. The man page didn't help me.

 

[Alain De Vos]

Just upgrade. Check later if you lost something.
If really needed normally you can add cryptodev to /etc/rc.conf:

kld_list=cryptodev

I'm currently on 13.1-RELEASE-p2

 

[Deleted member 65485]

# The 'cryptodev_load' line is a workaround for arm64, which does not
# automatically load cryptodev.ko with zfs.ko.
df -t zfs $BSDINSTALL_CHROOT > /dev/null && echo "cryptodev_load=\"YES\"" >> $BSDINSTALL_TMPBOOT/loader.conf