[PATCH v2 3/4] arm64: dts: marvell: cn9132-clearfog: fix multi-lane pci x2 and x4 ports
Josua Mayer
josua at solid-run.com
Thu Sep 18 03:46:03 PDT 2025
Am 12.09.25 um 00:12 schrieb Andrew Lunn:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 08:28:06PM +0200, Josua Mayer wrote:
>> The mvebu-comphy driver does not currently know how to pass correct
>> lane-count to ATF while configuring the serdes lanes.
>>
>> This causes the system to hard reset during reconfiguration, if a pci
>> card is present and has established a link during bootloader.
>>
>> Remove the comphy handles from the respective pci nodes to avoid runtime
>> reconfiguration, relying solely on bootloader configuration - while
>> avoiding the hard reset.
>>
>> When bootloader has configured the lanes correctly, the pci ports are
>> functional under Linux.
> Does this require a specific bootloader? Can i use mainline grub or
> bareboot?
In this case it means U-Boot, i.e. before one would start grub.
I am never quite sure if in this situation I should say "firmware" instead ...
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