From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Forster Subject: Question about unsupported transceivers Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:22:01 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: "dev@dpdk.org" Return-path: Received: from na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-bn1bon0079.outbound.protection.outlook.com [157.56.111.79]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C978E5D for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:22:05 +0200 (CEST) Content-Language: en-US List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Hi everybody, apologies for coming to this list with a tech support questio= n. I'm completely stumped about using non-Intel transceivers with DPDK. testpm= d is bailing here: PMD: eth_ixgbe_dev_init(): Unsupported SFP+ Module / PMD= : eth_ixgbe_dev_init(): Hardware Initialization Failure: -19 My box is an x64 server running Debian 8 (Jessie) with two X520-Q1 cards us= ing Finisar QSFP transceivers. Here are the things that I've tried so far, = unsuccessfully- * Added CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IXGBE_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SFP=3Dy to config/def= config_x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc and rebuilt/reinstalled/rebooted * Tried various incantations of modprobe/insmod with allow_unsupported_= sfp=3D1 appended * Added options ixgbe allow_unsupported_sfp=3D1 to /etc/modprobe.d/dpdk= .conf and rebuilt the initrd Can anybody lead me in the right direction here? It seems like a lot of the= information floating around about this issue may be out of date. Alex Forster