[dpdk-dev] Debugging EAL PCI / Driver Init

[Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>]

Hello,

I am running into a problem where Eth driver init works fine in a sample app 
and finds my NICs, and the NICs appear in rte_eal_pci_dump(stdout) but they 
don't show up in rte_eth_dev_count() even after rte_eal_pci_probe() is called 
the same as the sample apps, so my app won't boot.

I have a lot of experience using the older versions of the DPDK where you had 
to call the PMD init functions manually but no experience with the later 
versions where the DPDK is supposed to init the PMDs itself automatically.

What do I have to do to dump the most possible debug output on why the driver 
list for my PCI devices always seems empty? Any places I should look to see 
the issue? Maybe I didn't link it together with the right DPDK libs? I used 
the combined DPDK static lib libintel_dpdk.a to make things simpler as I had 
seen recommended in various places.

Thanks,
Matthew.