Hi I just started on dpdk, was trying to run l2fw. I bind two 82599 ports using dpdk-devbind to igb_uio (first tried uio_pci_generic with same result), then run l2fw but EAL is unable to probe these drivers still getting ixgbe. Here is the console output
[root@unassigned build]# dpdk-devbind --status Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver ============================================ 0000:01:00.0 '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection' drv=igb_uio unused=ixgbe,uio_pci_generic 0000:01:00.1 '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection' drv=igb_uio unused=ixgbe,uio_pci_generic Network devices using kernel driver =================================== 0000:02:00.0 'I210 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eno1 drv=igb unused=igb_uio,uio_pci_generic 0000:03:00.0 'I210 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eno2 drv=igb unused=igb_uio,uio_pci_generic Other network devices ===================== <none> Crypto devices using DPDK-compatible driver =========================================== <none> Crypto devices using kernel driver ================================== <none> Other crypto devices ==================== <none> [root@unassigned build]# ./l2fwd -c f -n 2 p ffff EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s) EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB EAL: Probing VFIO support... EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:10fb net_ixgbe EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.1 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:10fb net_ixgbe EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:1533 net_e1000_igb EAL: PCI device 0000:03:00.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:1533 net_e1000_igb MAC updating enabled Skipping disabled port 0 Skipping disabled port 1 EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 Cause: All available ports are disabled. Please set portmask. [root@unassigned build]#