[DPDK/bnxt] Issues starting bnxt on an Arm server

[Thierry Herbelot]

On 3/2/22 18:26, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:16 AM Thierry Herbelot
> <thierry.herbelot at 6wind.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Ajit
>>
>> The card is not correctly probed by the kernel, and so the FW version is
>> not visible.
> Thanks Thierry.
> I thought it was just the PMD running into trouble.
> 
> Can you give details of the ARM server?
> Make, Vendor, etc..?

This a Huawei server:
TaiShan 200 Server (Model 2180) aarch64, 48 cores, 2.6GHz, 64GB RAM

	Thierry

> 
> 
>>
>> I see this in the kernel dmesg:
>> bnxt_en 0000:03:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Error
>> (timeout: 500015) msg {0x0 0x0} len:0
>> bnxt_en 0000:03:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Firmware not
>> responding, status: 0x8ffff
>>
>> And then there are no bnxt_en netdevices.
>>
>>          Best regards
>>
>>          Thierry
>>
>>
>> On 3/2/22 18:13, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 7:13 AM Thierry Herbelot
>>> <thierry.herbelot at 6wind.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Ajit
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>>>
>>>> Please keep me posted when you check on your side.
>>> Can you tell what is the firmware version on the card?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>           Best regards
>>>>
>>>>           Thierry
>>>>
>>>> On 3/2/22 16:08, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this a know issue ?
>>>>> No.
>>>>> We have tried the Broadcom PMD on ARM server(s) and have been
>>>>> able to use it without any issues.
>>>>> But we can try it again and get back to you.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            Thierry Herbelot
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS: a similar error is seen for the Ethernet ports, when handled by the
>>>>>> kernel:
>>>>>> dmesg|grep bnxt
>>>>>> [   57.823746] bnxt_en 0000:03:00.0 (unnamed net_device)
>>>>>> (uninitialized): Error (timeout: 500015) msg {0x0 0x0} len:0
>>>>>> [   59.202255] bnxt_en: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -16
>>>>>> [   60.641519] bnxt_en 0000:03:00.1 (unnamed net_device)
>>>>>> (uninitialized): Error (timeout: 500015) msg {0x0 0x0} len:0
>>>>>> [   61.502237] bnxt_en: probe of 0000:03:00.1 failed with error -16
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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