linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4] PCI: Add initial support for handling PCIe M.2 connectors in devicetree

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Message-Id: <20251105-pci-m2-v1-0-84b5f1f1e5e8@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:45:48 +0530
From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephan Gerhold <stephan.gerhold@...aro.org>,
        Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@....qualcomm.com>,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] PCI: Add initial support for handling PCIe M.2
 connectors in devicetree

Hi,

This series is an initial attempt to support the PCIe M.2 connectors in the
kernel and devicetree binding. The PCIe M.2 connectors as defined in the PCI
Express M.2 Specification are widely used in Notebooks/Tablet form factors (even
in PCs). On the ACPI platforms, power to these connectors are mostly handled by
the firmware/BIOS and the kernel never bothered to directly power manage them as
like other PCIe connectors. But on the devicetree platforms, the kernel needs to
power manage these connectors with the help of the devicetree description. But
so far, there is no proper representation of the M.2 connectors in devicetree
binding. This forced the developers to fake the M.2 connectors as PMU nodes [1]
and fixed regulators in devicetree.

So to properly support the M.2 connectors in devicetree platforms, this series
introduces the devicetree binding for Mechanical Key M connector as an example
and also the corresponding pwrseq driver and PCI changes in kernel to driver the
connector.

The Mechanical Key M connector is used to connect SSDs to the host machine over
PCIe/SATA interfaces. Due to the hardware constraints, this series only adds
support for driving the PCIe interface of the connector in the kernel.

Also, the optional interfaces supported by the Key M connectors are not
supported in the driver and left for the future enhancements.

Future work
===========

I'm planning to submit the follow-up series to add support for the Mechanical
Key A connector for connecting the WiFI/BT cards, once some initial review
happens on this series.

Testing
=======

This series, together with the devicetree changes [2] [3] were tested on the
Qualcomm X1e based Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Laptop which has the NVMe SSD connected
over PCIe.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/x1e80100-qcp.dts?h=v6.18-rc4&id=d09ab685a8f51ba412d37305ea62628a01cbea57
[2] https://github.com/Mani-Sadhasivam/linux/commit/8f1d17c01a0d607a36e19c6d9f7fc877226ba315
[3] https://github.com/Mani-Sadhasivam/linux/commit/0b1f14a18db2a04046ad6af40e94984166c78fbc

Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com>
---
Manivannan Sadhasivam (4):
      dt-bindings: connector: Add PCIe M.2 Mechanical Key M connector
      PCI/pwrctrl: Add support for handling PCIe M.2 connectors
      PCI/pwrctrl: Create pwrctrl device if the graph port is found
      power: sequencing: Add the Power Sequencing driver for the PCIe M.2 connectors

 .../bindings/connector/pcie-m2-m-connector.yaml    | 121 ++++++++++++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                        |   7 ++
 drivers/pci/probe.c                                |   3 +-
 drivers/pci/pwrctrl/Kconfig                        |   1 +
 drivers/pci/pwrctrl/slot.c                         |  35 +++++-
 drivers/power/sequencing/Kconfig                   |   8 ++
 drivers/power/sequencing/Makefile                  |   1 +
 drivers/power/sequencing/pwrseq-pcie-m2.c          | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 308 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 3a8660878839faadb4f1a6dd72c3179c1df56787
change-id: 20251103-pci-m2-7633631b6faa

Best regards,
-- 
Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com>