On 27-03-24, 08:19, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
From: Marcel Ziswiler marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com
On the i.MX 8M Mini, the AUX_PLL_REFCLK_SEL has to be left at its reset default of AUX_IN (PLL clock).
Background Information: In our automated testing setup, we use Delock Mini-PCIe SATA cards [1]. While this setup has proven very stable overall we noticed upstream on the i.MX 8M Mini fails quite regularly (about 50/50) to bring up the PCIe link while with NXP's downstream BSP 5.15.71_2.2.2 it always works. As that old downstream stuff was quite different, I first also tried NXP's latest downstream BSP 6.1.55_2.2.0 which from a PCIe point of view is fairly vanilla, however, also there the PCIe link-up was not stable. Comparing and debugging I noticed that upstream explicitly configures the AUX_PLL_REFCLK_SEL to I_PLL_REFCLK_FROM_SYSPLL while working downstream [2] leaving it at reset defaults of AUX_IN (PLL clock). Unfortunately, the TRM does not mention any further details about this register (both for the i.MX 8M Mini as well as the Plus). NXP confirmed their validation codes for the i.MX8MM PCIe doesn't configure cmn_reg063 (offset: 0x18C). BTW: On the i.MX 8M Plus we have not seen any issues with PCIe with the exact same setup which is why I left it unchanged.
This does not apply on phy/fixes, pls rebase