Re: [dpdk-dev] Issue with binding NIC of type 82545EM to dpdk

[Al Patel <alps.oss@gmail.com>]

Ferruh,

On my fedora23, I don't have igb_uio

# modprobe igb_uio
modprobe: FATAL: Module igb_uio not found in directory
/lib/modules/4.4.6-300.fc23.x86_64


I am trying to bind to uio_pci_generic module

thx
-a

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
wrote:

> On 3/29/2016 3:11 PM, Al Patel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having an issue with binding a nic of type 82545EM to dpdk. I am
> using
> > a
> > fedoracore23 VM on MAC with VMFusion.
> >
> > ./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:02:02.0
> > Error: bind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot bind to driver
> uio_pci_generic
> > Error: unbind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot open
> > /sys/bus/pci/drivers//unbind
> >
> > it is unbound from e1000, repeating the command:
> >
> > ./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:02:02.0
> > Error: bind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot bind to driver
> uio_pci_generic
> >
> > I repeated the same test on a ubuntu vm running on Virtualbox with
> > NIC type 82450EM
> >
> > In this case, the device is able to bind successfully to uio_pci_generic
> > driver.
> >
> > There is a igb_uio module that present. The device cannot be bound to the
> > igb_uio
> > driver.
>
> Hi Al,
>
> You are trying to bind to the driver "uio_pci_generic" not to the
> "igb_uio", is it typo? If not, can you please double check if
> "uio_pci_generic" module inserted.
> Or bind device to "igb_uio":
> "./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b igb_uio 0000:02:02.0"
>
> Regards,
> ferruh
>
>