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* [PATCH 0/6] spi: add multi-bus support
@ 2025-10-14 22:02 David Lechner
  2025-10-14 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: spi: Add spi-buses property David Lechner
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From: David Lechner @ 2025-10-14 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Brown, Rob Herring, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Conor Dooley,
	Marcelo Schmitt, Michael Hennerich, Nuno Sá,
	Jonathan Cameron, Andy Shevchenko
  Cc: Sean Anderson, linux-spi, devicetree, linux-kernel, linux-iio,
	David Lechner

This series is adding support for SPI controllers and peripherals that
have multiple SPI data buses.

This series covers this specific use case:

+--------------+    +---------+
| SPI          |    | SPI     |
| Controller   |    | ADC     |
|              |    |         |
|          CS0 |--->| CS      |
|         SCLK |--->| SCLK    |
|          SDO |--->| SDI     |
|         SDI0 |<---| SDOA    |
|         SDI1 |<---| SDOB    |
|         SDI2 |<---| SDOC    |
|         SDI3 |<---| SDOD    |
+--------------+     +--------+

The ADC is a simultaneous sampling ADC that can convert 4 samples at the
same time. It has 4 data output lines (SDOA-D) that each contain the
data of one of the 4 channels. So it requires a SPI controller with 4
separate deserializers in order to receive all of the information at the
same time.

This should also work for the use case in [1] as well. (Some of the
patches in this series were already submitted there). In that case the
SPI controller is used kind of like it is two separate SPI controllers,
each with its own chip select, clock, and data lines.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/20250616220054.3968946-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev/

The DT bindings are a fairly straight-forward mapping of which pins on
the peripheral are connected to which pins on the controller. The SPI
core code parses this and makes the information available to drivers.
When a peripheral driver sees that multiple data buses are wired up, it
can chose to use them when sending messages.

The SPI message API is a bit higher-level than just specifying the
number of data lines for a SPI transfer though. I did some research on
other SPI controllers that have this feature. They tend to be the kind
meant for connecting to two flash memory chips at the same time but can
be used more generically as well. They generally have the option to
either use one bus at a time (Sean's use case), or can mirror the same
data on multiple buses (no users of this yet) or can perform striping
of a single data FIFO/DMA stream to/from the two buses (our use case).

For now, the API assumes that if you want to do mirror/striping, then
you want to use all available data buses. Otherwise, it just uses the
first data bus for "normal" SPI transfers.

Signed-off-by: David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>
---
David Lechner (6):
      dt-bindings: spi: Add spi-buses property
      spi: Support multi-bus controllers
      spi: add multi_bus_mode field to struct spi_transfer
      spi: axi-spi-engine: support SPI_MULTI_BUS_MODE_STRIPE
      dt-bindings: iio: adc: adi,ad7380: add spi-buses property
      iio: adc: ad7380: Add support for multiple SPI buses

 .../devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adi,ad7380.yaml    |  22 ++++
 .../bindings/spi/spi-peripheral-props.yaml         |  11 ++
 drivers/iio/adc/ad7380.c                           |  41 ++++---
 drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c                   | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/spi/spi.c                                  |  28 ++++-
 include/linux/spi/spi.h                            |  23 ++++
 6 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 40d3910fa7980ad3c211837f1a0ded5dfa36779a
change-id: 20250815-spi-add-multi-bus-support-1b35d05c54f6

Best regards,
-- 
David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>


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2025-10-21 14:21   ` Rob Herring
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2025-10-14 22:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] spi: add multi_bus_mode field to struct spi_transfer David Lechner
2025-10-15 10:16   ` Nuno Sá
2025-10-15 12:01     ` Mark Brown
2025-10-15 14:43       ` Nuno Sá
2025-10-15 15:18         ` Mark Brown
2025-10-15 16:15           ` David Lechner
2025-10-15 16:43             ` Nuno Sá
2025-10-15 18:38               ` David Lechner
2025-10-16  9:08                 ` Nuno Sá
2025-10-16 15:25                   ` David Lechner
2025-10-17 12:36                     ` Nuno Sá
2025-10-15 20:21   ` Marcelo Schmitt
2025-10-14 22:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] spi: axi-spi-engine: support SPI_MULTI_BUS_MODE_STRIPE David Lechner
2025-10-15 10:30   ` Nuno Sá
2025-10-15 12:03     ` Mark Brown
2025-10-15 16:29     ` David Lechner
2025-10-16  9:11       ` Nuno Sá
2025-10-15 20:53   ` Marcelo Schmitt
2025-10-15 22:01     ` David Lechner
2025-10-14 22:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] dt-bindings: iio: adc: adi,ad7380: add spi-buses property David Lechner
2025-10-14 22:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] iio: adc: ad7380: Add support for multiple SPI buses David Lechner
2025-10-15 10:36   ` Nuno Sá
2025-10-15 18:46     ` David Lechner
2025-10-18 18:10   ` Jonathan Cameron

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