From: david@lechnology.com (David Lechner)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: DTS: da850: add node for spi0
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:20:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57115B33.90509@lechnology.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31522.1460751389@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On 04/15/2016 03:16 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:17:55 -0500, David Lechner said:
>
>> I omitted this on purpose. For my use case, I am using the SPI as
>> write-only,
>
> So your SPI accesses are fire-and-forget, and nothing ever comes back?
Yes.
> Seems a very dangerous way to design the use case, with no feedback if
> something suddenly goes pear-shaped...
You should tell Sitronix. This is how their display controllers work.
>
> Or do you have ways to verify the status via some method other than SPI?
>
Nope.
I'm working with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, a mass-produced robotics system.
It is what it is. And I have a logic analyzer for when things go
pear-shaped. ;-)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: DTS: da850: add node for spi0
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:20:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57115B33.90509@lechnology.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31522.1460751389-+bZmOdGhbsPr6rcHtW+onFJE71vCis6O@public.gmane.org>
On 04/15/2016 03:16 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ@public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:17:55 -0500, David Lechner said:
>
>> I omitted this on purpose. For my use case, I am using the SPI as
>> write-only,
>
> So your SPI accesses are fire-and-forget, and nothing ever comes back?
Yes.
> Seems a very dangerous way to design the use case, with no feedback if
> something suddenly goes pear-shaped...
You should tell Sitronix. This is how their display controllers work.
>
> Or do you have ways to verify the status via some method other than SPI?
>
Nope.
I'm working with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, a mass-produced robotics system.
It is what it is. And I have a logic analyzer for when things go
pear-shaped. ;-)
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From: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: DTS: da850: add node for spi0
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:20:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57115B33.90509@lechnology.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31522.1460751389@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On 04/15/2016 03:16 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:17:55 -0500, David Lechner said:
>
>> I omitted this on purpose. For my use case, I am using the SPI as
>> write-only,
>
> So your SPI accesses are fire-and-forget, and nothing ever comes back?
Yes.
> Seems a very dangerous way to design the use case, with no feedback if
> something suddenly goes pear-shaped...
You should tell Sitronix. This is how their display controllers work.
>
> Or do you have ways to verify the status via some method other than SPI?
>
Nope.
I'm working with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, a mass-produced robotics system.
It is what it is. And I have a logic analyzer for when things go
pear-shaped. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-15 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-13 22:30 [PATCH 0/3] More small davinci device tree fixes David Lechner
2016-04-13 22:30 ` David Lechner
2016-04-13 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: DTS: da850: add node for spi0 David Lechner
2016-04-13 22:30 ` David Lechner
2016-04-15 10:24 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-15 10:24 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-15 10:24 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-15 16:17 ` David Lechner
2016-04-15 16:17 ` David Lechner
2016-04-15 20:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2016-04-15 20:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2016-04-15 20:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ
2016-04-15 21:20 ` David Lechner [this message]
2016-04-15 21:20 ` David Lechner
2016-04-15 21:20 ` David Lechner
2016-04-18 5:55 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-18 5:55 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-18 5:55 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-13 22:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: DTS: da850: disable mdio and eth0 by default David Lechner
2016-04-13 22:30 ` David Lechner
2016-04-13 22:30 ` David Lechner
2016-04-15 10:25 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-15 10:25 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-15 10:25 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-13 22:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: DTS: da850: There are 101 interrupts David Lechner
2016-04-13 22:30 ` David Lechner
2016-04-15 10:26 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-15 10:26 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-15 10:26 ` Sekhar Nori
2016-04-14 22:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] More small davinci device tree fixes Kevin Hilman
2016-04-14 22:20 ` Kevin Hilman
2016-04-14 22:20 ` Kevin Hilman
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