Comment 14 for bug 1790652

Seth,

I've installed your kernel in an image that wasn't booting on the instance type and validated that the test kernel from comment #12 does fix boot.

$ sudo ethtool -i ens3
driver: bnxt_en
version: 1.9.1
firmware-version: 20.8.172.0/pkg 20.8.29.0
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:00:03.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no

$ uname -a
Linux rcj-lp1790652-21 4.18.0-8-generic #9+lp1790652v201809170859 SMP Mon Sep 17 07:01:34 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dmesg|grep bnx
[ 2.366526] Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E driver bnxt_en v1.9.1
[ 2.384175] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): hwrm req_type 0xf seq id 0x5 error 0xffff
[ 2.394757] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme-E Ethernet Virtual Function found at mem 2000100000, node addr 00:00:17:02:42:58
[ 2.401353] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0: 0.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by Unknown speed x0 link at 0000:00:03.0 (capable of 63.008 Gb/s with 8 GT/s x8 link)
[ 2.474211] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 ens3: renamed from eth0
[ 4.379763] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 ens3: NIC Link is Up, 25000 Mbps full duplex, Flow control: none
[ 4.382846] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 ens3: FEC autoneg off encodings: None