RE: [PATCH v1] PCI: starfive: Use regulator APIs instead of GPIO APIs to control the 3V3 power supply of PCIe slots
From: Hal Feng
Date: Mon Dec 08 2025 - 14:21:53 EST
> On 04.12.25 14:50, Hal Feng wrote:
> The "enable-gpio" property is obtained to control the 3V3 power supply of
> PCIe slots but it is not documented in the dt-bindings and using GPIO APIs is
> not a standard method to control PCIe slot power, so use "vpcie3v3-supply"
> property and regulator APIs to replace them.
>
> This change will break the DTs which add "enable-gpio" or "enable-gpios"
> property under the node with compatible "starfive,jh7110-pcie".
> Fortunately, there are no such DTs in the upstream mainline, so this change
> has no impact on the upstream mainline.
> If you have used "enable-gpio" or "enable-gpios" property in your
> downstream DTs, please update it with "vpcie3v3-supply" after applying this
> commit.
>
> Acked-by: Kevin Xie <kevin.xie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hal Feng <hal.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi, Bjorn, Manivannan and the other PCI maintainers,
Could you please pick up this patch for the coming v6.19rc? So the VisionFive 2 Lite board
can be fully supported in v6.19. If anything needed to change, please let me know and I am
willing to send v2 in time. Thanks.
Best regards,
Hal
> ---
>
> This patch is derived from the reply of Manivannan [1].
> And the previous version is [2].
>
> Changes since [2]:
> - Improve the commit messages. Add description to explain the impact of
> this patch.
> - Remove the Fixes tag and the Tested-by tag.
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/xxswzi4v6gpuqbe3cczj2yjmprhvln26fl5ligsp5vkiog
> rnwk@hpifxivaps6j/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251125075604.69370-2-
> hal.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> ---
> drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c | 25 ++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
> b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
> index 3caf53c6c082..298036c3e7f9 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct starfive_jh7110_pcie {
> struct reset_control *resets;
> struct clk_bulk_data *clks;
> struct regmap *reg_syscon;
> - struct gpio_desc *power_gpio;
> + struct regulator *vpcie3v3;
> struct gpio_desc *reset_gpio;
> struct phy *phy;
>
> @@ -153,11 +153,13 @@ static int starfive_pcie_parse_dt(struct
> starfive_jh7110_pcie *pcie,
> return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(pcie->reset_gpio),
> "failed to get perst-gpio\n");
>
> - pcie->power_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, "enable",
> - GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
> - if (IS_ERR(pcie->power_gpio))
> - return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(pcie->power_gpio),
> - "failed to get power-gpio\n");
> + pcie->vpcie3v3 = devm_regulator_get_optional(dev, "vpcie3v3");
> + if (IS_ERR(pcie->vpcie3v3)) {
> + if (PTR_ERR(pcie->vpcie3v3) != -ENODEV)
> + return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(pcie->vpcie3v3),
> + "failed to get vpcie3v3
> regulator\n");
> + pcie->vpcie3v3 = NULL;
> + }
>
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -270,8 +272,8 @@ static void starfive_pcie_host_deinit(struct
> plda_pcie_rp *plda)
> container_of(plda, struct starfive_jh7110_pcie, plda);
>
> starfive_pcie_clk_rst_deinit(pcie);
> - if (pcie->power_gpio)
> - gpiod_set_value_cansleep(pcie->power_gpio, 0);
> + if (pcie->vpcie3v3)
> + regulator_disable(pcie->vpcie3v3);
> starfive_pcie_disable_phy(pcie);
> }
>
> @@ -304,8 +306,11 @@ static int starfive_pcie_host_init(struct plda_pcie_rp
> *plda)
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> - if (pcie->power_gpio)
> - gpiod_set_value_cansleep(pcie->power_gpio, 1);
> + if (pcie->vpcie3v3) {
> + ret = regulator_enable(pcie->vpcie3v3);
> + if (ret)
> + dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to enable vpcie3v3
> regulator\n");
> + }
>
> if (pcie->reset_gpio)
> gpiod_set_value_cansleep(pcie->reset_gpio, 1);
>
> base-commit: b2c27842ba853508b0da00187a7508eb3a96c8f7
> --
> 2.43.2