Re: [spi-devel-general] [PATCH v2] spi: Add support for the OpenCores SPI controller.

[Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>]

Le Tuesday 28 April 2009 14:20:11 Thierry Reding, vous avez écrit :
> * David Brownell wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > This second version is pretty much a rewrite.
> >
> > That happens sometimes...
> >
> > > Some notes about the most
> > > important changes:
> > >
> > >   * uses per-chip states to allow more slaves to use the controller
> > >     concurrently
> > >   * rejects invalid device configurations during setup
> > >   * rejects invalid per-message and per-transfer options
> > >   * queues messages so that they can be processed one after another
> > >       - this also provides for a way to handle power-management
> > >   * omits the spioc.h (and with it the platform data structure):
> > >       - uses the platform_device.id for the bus number
> > >       - always uses 8 chipselects because that's the maximum that the
> > > core supports
> >
> > All that sounds good.
> >
> > > I couldn't really find a way to implement per-transfer overrides for
> > > the word size because the controller simply has no concept of word
> > > sizes. Is it in such cases still necessary to hardwire the word size to
> > > 8 bits?
> >
> > Is this the http://www.opencores.org/?do=project&who=spi core?
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> > Its summary says "Variable length of transfer word up to 32 bits";
> > does that mean "configurable when core is synthesized" instead of
> > truly "variable"?

This is indeed configured at synthesis time.

>
> That summary seems out-dated. The variable length of transfer word is
> actually the maximum length of a single transfer and is 128 bits in the
> latest version. So you get 4 registers, each 32 bits wide into which you
> program the data you want to transfer. Then you set the number of bits of
> that transfer so the core knows which registers and what bits of those
> registers to shift out serially.
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Best regards, Florian Fainelli
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