Re: [PATCH V2] arm64: dts: imx8mp-evk: Disable PCIe bus in the default dts

[Frank Li]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 05:03:53PM +0800, Sherry Sun wrote:
> Disable the PCIe bus in the default device tree to avoid shared
> regulator conflicts between SDIO and PCIe buses. The non-deterministic
> probe order between these two buses can break the PCIe initialization
> sequence, causing PCIe devices to fail detection intermittently.
>
> On i.MX8MP EVK board, the M.2 connector is physically wired to both
> USDHC1 and PCIe0, however the out-of-box module is SDIO IW612 WiFi, so
> enable the SDIO WiFi in the default imx8mp-evk.dts, and provide a
> separate device tree overlay (imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtso) to enable the PCIe
> bus when needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Chanegs in V2:
> 1. Improve the commit message to clarify SDIO WiFi is the out-of-box module on
>    i.MX8MP EVK board.
> ---
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/Makefile        |  4 +++-
>  .../boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtso   | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk.dts  |  4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtso
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/Makefile b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/Makefile
> index 780682258e71..107ca270ef32 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/Makefile
> @@ -333,12 +333,14 @@ imx8mp-evk-lvds0-imx-lvds-hdmi-dtbs += imx8mp-evk.dtb imx8mp-evk-lvds0-imx-lvds-
>  imx8mp-evk-lvds1-imx-dlvds-hdmi-channel0-dtbs += imx8mp-evk.dtb imx8mp-evk-lvds1-imx-dlvds-hdmi-channel0.dtbo
>  imx8mp-evk-lvds1-imx-lvds-hdmi-dtbs += imx8mp-evk.dtb imx8mp-evk-lvds1-imx-lvds-hdmi.dtbo
>  imx8mp-evk-mx8-dlvds-lcd1-dtbs += imx8mp-evk.dtb imx8mp-evk-mx8-dlvds-lcd1.dtbo
> -imx8mp-evk-pcie-ep-dtbs += imx8mp-evk.dtb imx-pcie0-ep.dtbo
> +imx8mp-evk-pcie-dtbs := imx8mp-evk.dtb imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtbo
> +imx8mp-evk-pcie-ep-dtbs += imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtb imx-pcie0-ep.dtbo
>  dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) += imx8mp-evk-lvds0-imx-dlvds-hdmi-channel0.dtb
>  dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) += imx8mp-evk-lvds0-imx-lvds-hdmi.dtb
>  dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) += imx8mp-evk-lvds1-imx-dlvds-hdmi-channel0.dtb
>  dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) += imx8mp-evk-lvds1-imx-lvds-hdmi.dtb
>  dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) += imx8mp-evk-mx8-dlvds-lcd1.dtb
> +dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) += imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtb
>  dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) += imx8mp-evk-pcie-ep.dtb
>
>  imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mpxl-lvds-tm070jvhg33-dtbs += imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mpxl.dtb imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mpxl-lvds-tm070jvhg33.dtbo
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtso b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtso
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..4f6546d442bf
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk-pcie.dtso
> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
> +/*
> + * Copyright 2026 NXP
> + */
> +
> +/dts-v1/;
> +/plugin/;
> +
> +&pcie_phy {
> +	status = "okay";
> +};
> +
> +&pcie0 {
> +	status = "okay";
> +};
> +
> +&usdhc1 {
> +	status = "disabled";
> +};

Please use one overlay for both imx95 and imx8mp to enable pcie0 and disable
usdhc1.

Frank

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk.dts
> index aedc09937716..f09335e6388d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-evk.dts
> @@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ &pcie_phy {
>  	fsl,refclk-pad-mode = <IMX8_PCIE_REFCLK_PAD_INPUT>;
>  	clocks = <&pcie0_refclk>;
>  	clock-names = "ref";
> -	status = "okay";
> +	status = "disabled";
>  };
>
>  &pcie0 {
> @@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ &pcie0 {
>  	vpcie-supply = <&reg_pcie0>;
>  	vpcie3v3aux-supply = <&reg_pcie0>;
>  	supports-clkreq;
> -	status = "okay";
> +	status = "disabled";
>  };
>
>  &pcie0_ep {
> --
> 2.37.1
>