Putting this up for folk who may hit a similar issue.

If you have a machine which has a single root PCIe device, where the output of lspci -tv looks something like this;

alsutton@svr204:~$ lspci -tv
--0000:00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
           +-02.0  Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2  UHD Graphics 630]
           +-08.0  Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
           +-14.0  Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller
           +-14.2  Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM
           +-16.0  Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller
           +-1b.0--01]----00.0  Micron/Crucial Technology P2  Nick P2] / P3 / P3 Plus NVMe PCIe SSD (DRAM-less)
           +-1f.0  Intel Corporation B360 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller
           +-1f.3  Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS
           +-1f.4  Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller
           +-1f.5  Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller
           \-1f.6  Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V

You need to be very careful running `axdevice --refresh`.

I’ve got two machines that, by default, present the pci device tree in this way, and running `axdevice --refresh` triggered the NVMe drive to be disconnected from the system, resulting in filesystem corruption, which put the whole system into a read-only mode.

It would be awesome if someone could update the axdevice script to only affect Axelera devices, and yes, this is a machine with the card installed, it just hasn’t been detected.