[dpdk-users] Firmware assertion fails with BCM57840 card

[Justas Poderys]

Hello all,

I am trying to setup dpdk on a server with BCM57840 card, however I cannot get testpmd to run due to the assertion failure:

juspo at TOR1CN:~/dpdk-stable-16.11.1$ sudo -E ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0xf -n 4 -- -i
EAL: Detected 24 lcore(s)
EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: PCI device 0000:15:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   probe driver: 14e4:16a1 net_bnx2x
testpmd: /home/juspo/dpdk-stable-16.11.1/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethdev.c:556: bnx2x_common_dev_init: Assertion `sc->firmware' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

Details of my system:

juspo at TOR1CN:~/dpdk-stable-16.11.1$ sudo -E ~/dpdk-stable-16.11.1/tools/dpdk-devbind.py --status

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
============================================
0000:15:00.0 'BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet' drv=igb_uio unused=bnx2x,vfio-pci
0000:15:00.1 'BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet' drv=igb_uio unused=bnx2x,vfio-pci

I was following the guide available at http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.html when trying to setup the system.

Thanks for any help.

BR,
~Justas