Raspberry Pi 3B: Failed to create device link with soc:firmware:gpio

[Saravana Kannan]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:13 AM Martin Wetterwald <martin at wetterwald.eu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 2:16 PM Stefan Wahren <wahrenst at gmx.net> wrote:
> > What happens if you replace your custom config with arm64/defconfig?
> > Does the issue still occurs?
>
> I've just launched a kernel with the arm64 defconfig:
>
> > 3f201000.serial: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x3f201000 (irq = 99, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
> > serial serial0: tty port ttyAMA0 registered
> > raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2024-09-13T16:00:01
> > hci_uart_bcm serial0-0: supply vbat not found, using dummy regulator
> > hci_uart_bcm serial0-0: supply vddio not found, using dummy regulator
> > Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 94
> > Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: features 0x2e
> > Bluetooth: hci0: BCM43430A1
> > Bluetooth: hci0: BCM43430A1 (001.002.009) build 0000
>
> And it worked perfectly. Thanks for your suggestion. It confirmed the problem
> came from my kernel config.
>
> I then compared both .config and it appeared I was missing this config flag:
>
> > CONFIG_SERIAL_DEV_CTRL_TTYPORT
>
> I had already enabled CONFIG_SERIAL_DEV_BUS, but not CTRL_TTYPORT.
> Nevertheless, that first kernel config item's prompt had been clear about that,
> but I missed the advice:
>
> > CONFIG_SERIAL_DEV_BUS
> > Core support for devices connected via a serial port.
> > Note that you typically also want to enable TTY port controller support.
>
> It's so much better now to see the HCI attachment handled by the kernel
> directly!

Glad this got sorted out without my help :) Thanks Stefan!


-Saravana