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

From: Sherry Sun

Date: Fri Mar 20 2026 - 05:06:51 EST


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";
+};
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