Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] pcie-qcom: provide a way to power up qca6390 chip on RB5 platform

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 11:04, Yassine Oudjana <y.oudjana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 11:52 AM Dmitry Baryshkov
> <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Some Qualcomm platforms require to power up an external device before
> > probing the PCI bus. E.g. on RB5 platform the QCA6390 WiFi/BT chip needs
> > to be powered up before PCIe0 bus is probed. Add a quirk to the
> > respective PCIe root bridge to attach to the power domain if one is
> > required, so that the QCA chip is started before scanning the PCIe bus.
>
> I'm lead to believe that this is also needed for QCA6174. I tried taking
> the driver you wrote and changing regulators to match the ones used by QCA6174,
> but I found that it gets probed after PCIe, which makes it get -EPROBE_DEFER
> when it tries to attach to the power domain, which it doesn't handle it and
> just proceeds to scan the bus and not find the chip as usual.

As a quick hack, you can try using this power domain for the pci_phy
(see my v1). Rob declined this approach, but it is useful to check if
QCA6174 wakes up properly and deferring PCIe probing till the chip is
powered up.



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With best wishes
Dmitry