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
