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> Hello,<br>
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On Tue, 12 May 2026 at 01:14, David Marchand spoke:<br>
>On Tue, 12 May 2026 at 09:58, Mahan, Patrick <patrick.mahan@hpe.com> wrote:<br>
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>> Morning all,<br>
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>> If this is not the appropriate group then please let me know the proper mailing list.<br>
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> Adding Intel maintainers in the loop, probably the best to answer your<br>
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>> I am trying to debug an issue with the ICE PMD in DPDK v24.11.0 in a linux environment (YOCTO scarthgap, 6.6.35 kernel).<br>
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>> We are bringing up a new platform based on the Intel Atom C5315 which has the ICE driver (E822-L) and I am seeing the following error during the call to rte_eal_init() -<br>
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>> ICE_INIT: ice_dev_init(): Failed to read device serial number<br>
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>Afaik, reading the device serial number only affects which ddp binary is loaded.<br>
>If reading this SN fails, there is a fallback, and the device<br>
>initialisation should still succeed.<br>
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Update, it seems that the fallback ddp config was not present, it has now been added and we are seeing the</div>
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I am wondering if I should have seen an error about it failing to load the ddp configuration?
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Thanks for your reply!</div>
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