Hi Joseph,

On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 4:36 AM Joseph Guo <[email protected]> wrote:

> On i.MX95, `netc_bus0`/`netc_bus1` are internal pseudo-PCI buses used by the 
> NETC subsystem for register access — they are not real external PCIe root 
> complexes.
> Without explicit ordering, `netc_bus0`/`netc_bus1` may be enumerated before 
> or interleaved with the real external PCIe root complex,
> making it difficult to predictably identify and target the true PCIe 
> interface (e.g., for NVMe, PCIe Ethernet, or other add-in cards) in boot 
> scripts and environment variables.
>
>
> The `pci0`/`pci1` aliases fix the enumeration order in U-Boot only. Linux 
> does not use `pci` aliases for bus ordering. In kernel, it use 
> 'linux,pci-domain = <0>;' instead.
> I prefer keep the alias in u-boot.dtsi instead of upstream.

Why can't U-boot use 'linux,pci-domain = <0>;' just like the kernel, then?

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