On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 02:54:06PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > On 17.12.19 00:37, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > - Boot with all four PLX slots occupied by NVMe devices. The BIOS > > may assign space to accommodate them all. If it does, you should > > be able to hot-remove and add devices after boot. > > Unfortunately, that's not an option. We need to be able to boot with > e.g. one NVMe device and hot-plug one or more devices later. That was also my suggestion, but not necessarily as a "solution". It's just to see if it works, which might indicate what the kernel could do differently.