Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: dts: rockchip: drop max-link-speed = <2> in helios64 PCIe

[Dragan Simic]

On Saturday, November 15, 2025 10:36 CET, "Dragan Simic" <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday, November 15, 2025 10:10 CET, Geraldo Nascimento <geraldogabriel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Shawn Lin from Rockchip strongly discourages attempts to use their
> > RK3399 PCIe core at 5.0 GT/s speed, citing concerns about catastrophic
> > failures that may happen. Even if the odds are low, drop from last user
> > of this property for the RK3399 platform, helios64.
> > 
> > Fixes: 755fff528b1b ("arm64: dts: rockchip: add variables for pcie completion to helios64")
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ffd05070-9879-4468-94e3-b88968b4c21b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > Reported-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Geraldo Nascimento <geraldogabriel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts
> > index e7d4a2f9a95e..78a7775c3b22 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts
> > @@ -424,7 +424,6 @@ &pcie_phy {
> >  
> >  &pcie0 {
> >  	ep-gpios = <&gpio2 RK_PD4 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> > -	max-link-speed = <2>;
> >  	num-lanes = <2>;
> >  	pinctrl-names = "default";
> >  	status = "okay";
> 
> Looking good to me, this rounds up the prevention of issues
> coming from buggy PCIe Gen2 on RK3399.
> 
> Please feel free to include
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Though, could you, please, add patch 4/3 to this series, which
> would remove the redundant parameter "max-link-speed = <1>" from
> rk3399-nanopi-r4s.dtsi?

Sorry, I forgot to note that the patch summary would read a bit
better if it were reworded like this:

  arm64: dts: rockchip: Remove redundant max-link-speed from helios64 board dts