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[Ben Dooks <ben-Y5A6D6n0/KfQXOPxS62xeg@public.gmane.org>]

Ben Gamari wrote:
> Bcc: 
> Subject: GPIO chip select support in omap2_mcspi driver
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Recently I have been looking to use a BeagleBoard to drive several
> serial ADCs and DACs in a data acquisition and analysis setup. Unfortunately, the
> BeagleBoard is severely limited by the number of SPI controllers it
> exposes on the expansion connector (McSPI3 with 2 CS lines and McSPI4
> with one). This is insufficient for our application and thus I have been
> investigating adding support to the mcspi driver for using GPIO lines as
> chip select lines, as is done in the pxa2xx, bfin5xx, and s3c24xx drivers.
> 
> To this end, I have a few questions about how this support was
> implemented. First, it seems that the s3c24xx driver is built on the
> spi_bitbang driver, despite interfacing with a dedicated hardware SPI
> controller.  What is the reason for this? Was this done specifically for
> the purpose of incorporating support for GPIO CS pins?

The spi_bitbang driver also has a really useful spi queue and workqueue
built into it, which is what the s3c24xx spi driver actually bothers to
use.

> It seems like the rough idea is to add a cs_gpio field to the device
> struct (omap2_mcspi) and add the appropriate code to the
> omap2_mcspi_force_cs() to bring cs_gpio high or low if it is valid. The
> potential problem I can see with this is that omap2_mcspi_set_enable()
> is called to enable the channel before the force_cs() is called (in
> omap2_mcspi_work()). If I'm interpreting the documentation correctly,
> the enable bit starts the clocks, meaning that the chip will begin
> clocking out data before CS is brought high. I must be missing something
> here, no?
> 
> For reference, I included a short list of relevant commits below, largely for
> my own benefit. I would greatly appreciate any feedback you might have.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Ben
> 
> 
> pxa2xx_spi: a7bb3909b3293d503211d7f6af8ed62c1644b686
> bfin_spi: 42c78b2bf51bafb4cfa98dfecc28dd9b8bcd04b0


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