Issues with DPDK ICE PMD

[Mahan, Patrick]

> Hello,

On Tue, 12 May 2026 at 01:14, David Marchand spoke:
>On Tue, 12 May 2026 at 09:58, Mahan, Patrick <patrick.mahan at hpe.com> wrote:
>>
>> Morning all,
>>
>> If this is not the appropriate group then please let me know the proper mailing list.
>
> Adding Intel maintainers in the loop, probably the best to answer your
> questions.
>
>>
>> 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.
>

Update, it seems that the fallback ddp config was not present, it has now been added and we are seeing the
DPDK etherdev port is being created.

I am wondering if I should have seen an error about it failing to load the ddp configuration?

Thanks for your reply!

Patrick

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/users/attachments/20260512/4ef9a509/attachment-0001.htm>