Initial coreboot port for APU2 was made with badly implemented PCIe engines definition passed to AGESA. It's done in the way that mPCIe cards get lower address than Network interface controllers (NICs). It causes weird and unwanted behavior like shifting addresses of NICs when a mPCIe device is added. Unfortunately it can’t be changed without consequences, because of many years of APU existence on the market. If it had been changed, many APU owners would be surprised by e.g. change of interfaces names.
To address this issue, we added a runtime option in sortbootorder which reverses the order of PCIe engines assignment in a way that:
- NICs occupy the lowest PCIe device numbers which make their enumeration persistent regardless of the WiFi module presence
- the WoL capable NIC is the first PCIe device in iPXE and in the operating system
- the mPCIe slots occupy the highest PCIe device numbers in following order: 3x NIC, mPCIe1, mPCIe2. In such case faulty detected WiFi in mPCIe2 slot will not affect interface renaming for mPCIe1 slot WiFi card.
By default, this option is disabled which means nothing changes (compared to the state maintained for past 4 years) without intentional change of this setting.
To reverse order of PCI addresses:
- enter the sortbootorder in the SeaBIOS menu while booting by choosing
payload [setup] - enable the
Reverse order of PCI addressesoption by pressinggkey - save and exit sortbootorder by pressing
s.