[Bug 1962349] [NEW] Bolt doesn't work with native USB4 hosts

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[Impact]

 * AMD Yellow Carp provides integrated USB4 host controllers
 * When plugging in a Thunderbolt3 or USB4 device, users are unable to authorize it using the GUI due to an error message: "parent not authorized, deferring"

[Test Plan]

 * Plug in USB4 device or TBT3 to AMD Yellow Carp host
 * Ensure that PCI topology has populated
 * Observe that /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/DEVICE/authorized is "0"
 * Try to run `boltctl enroll $UUID`

[Where problems could occur]

 * Intel USB4 or TBT3 hosts also use bolt.  They could have a problem with the new version of bolt.
 * This is very unlikely however since there is a through test suite, and up until now the entire industry has been using bolt on Intel controllers for a long time.
 * There haven't been any significant bugs reported upstream or in Ubuntu since 0.9.1 release.

[Other Info]
 * This bug also occurs on Intel controllers from ICL, TGL or ALD, but in many cases they are automatically authorized to an iommu DMA policy.
 * It is fixed in bolt 0.9.1 or later release.
 * To solve the SRU, will backport 0.9.1 release from Impish.
 * I did look into backporting just the commit(s) for fixing this, but it's not a trivial backport.  Quoting the changelog (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bolt/bolt/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md): "Additionally the unique_id of said host controller changes with every boot, which breaks one of the fundamental assumptions in boltd".

** Affects: bolt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: bolt (Ubuntu Focal)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: bolt (Ubuntu Impish)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: bolt (Ubuntu Jammy)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

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Bolt doesn't work with native USB4 hosts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1962349
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