Issues with DPDK ICE PMD

[Alessio Bogani]

Hi Patrick,

[...]
>> 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).
>>
>> 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() -
>>
>> ICE_INIT: ice_dev_init(): Failed to read device serial number
> 
> Afaik, reading the device serial number only affects which ddp binary is loaded.
> If reading this SN fails, there is a fallback, and the device
> initialisation should still succeed.
> 
>>
>> Now, we have been using the ICE PMD successfully on another platform (E810-XXV)
>> with the AMD EPYC 9354P.

Is the AMD EPYC 9345P system also based on Yocto?

We also had a similar problem. In our case, the solution was to add the firmware to the initramfs.


Ciao,
Alessio