[PATCH] arm64: dts: imx8dxl-ss-conn: Disable USB3 nodes

Alexander Dahl ada at thorsis.com
Wed Jun 11 00:00:51 PDT 2025


Hello Frank,

thanks for reviewing.

Am Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 11:34:22AM -0400 schrieb Frank Li:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 08:07:56AM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > The i.MX 8DualXLite/8SoloXLite has a different connectivity memory map
> > than the generic i.MX8 has.  One conflicting resource is usb, where the
> > imx8dxl has a second usb2 phy @5b110000, while the generic imx8 dtsi has
> > one usb2 phy and one usb3 phy, and the usb3otg @5b110000.  When
> > including both imx8dxl-ss-conn.dtsi and imx8-ss-conn.dtsi as done in
> > imx8dxl.dtsi this leads to a duplicate unit-address warning.
> >
> > The usb3otg node was introduced after the initial imx8dxl support with
> > commit a8bd7f155126 ("arm64: dts: imx8qxp: add cadence usb3 support")
> > and since then leads to warnings like this (when building with ptxdist):
> >
> >     CPP generic/platform-v8a/build-target/linux-6.12/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8dxl-evk.dts
> >     DTC generic/platform-v8a/packages/linux-6.12/boot/imx8dxl-evk.dtb
> >     /home/adahl/Work/bsp/thorsis/generic/platform-v8a/build-target/linux-6.12/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8-ss-conn.dtsi:148.24-182.4: Warning (unique_unit_address): /bus at 5b000000/usb at 5b110000: duplicate unit-address (also used in node /bus at 5b000000/usbphy at 5b110000)
> 
> why linux-6.12? maybe just your directory name. trim down
> "generic/platform-v8a/build-target/linux-6.12/" just keep kernel's related
> patch here.

Yes, just my directory name.  Sorry about that.
Same happens when building recent v6.16-rc1 or master.

> what command do you use? I have not met this warning.

This is ptxdist [1] building dtb files with its own recipe, not going
through kernel's make dtbs.  I could reproduce it on a clean kernel
tree however like this (with PATH and ARCH=arm64 set):

    make defconfig
    make W=2 dtbs

Output (stripped) is this in that case:

      DTC     arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8dxl-evk.dtb
    …/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8-ss-conn.dtsi:148.24-182.4: Warning (unique_unit_address): /bus at 5b000000/usb at 5b110000: duplicate unit-address (also used in node /bus at 5b000000/usbphy at 5b110000)
    …/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8-ss-hsio.dtsi:52.23-81.4: Warning (unique_unit_address): /bus at 5f000000/pcie at 5f010000: duplicate unit-address (also used in node /bus at 5f000000/pcie-ep at 5f010000)
      also defined at …/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8dxl-ss-hsio.dtsi:41.23-50.4
      also defined at …/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8dxl-evk.dts:645.8-653.3

These warnings do not show up with W=1.

So why do I get this?  kernel build calls dtc with
-Wno-unique_unit_address or not depending on warning level.
ptxdist does not call dtc with that option, so those warnings are not
silenced (details for the curious at [2]).

Do we fix issues coming up with W=2?
If yes I would adapt the commit message and send a v2.

Greets
Alex

[1] https://www.ptxdist.org/
[2] https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/ptxdist/tree/scripts/lib/ptxd_make_world_dtb.sh



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