Hi,

Currently, CSPI2 of the i.MX27 is used to communicate with its companion chip (MC13783). This works fine. The SPI parts of the board file look like :

static int imx27_interaxio_spi1_cs[] = {GPIO_PORTD + 21};

static struct spi_imx_master imx27_interaxio_spi_1_data = {

    .chipselect = imx27_interaxio_spi1_cs,

    .num_chipselect = ARRAY_SIZE(imx27_interaxio_spi1_cs),

};

static struct spi_board_info imx27_interaxio_spi_board_info[] = {

    {

      .name = "mc13783",

      .max_speed_hz = 3000000,

      .bus_num = 0,

      .chip_select = 0, /* offset in the chip select array */

    },

};

[…]

static int imx27_interaxio_devices_init(void)

{

  […]

  /* PMIC support */

  spi_register_board_info(imx27_interaxio_spi_board_info, ARRAY_SIZE(imx27_interaxio_spi_board_info));

  imx27_add_spi1(&imx27_interaxio_spi_1_data);

[…]

Now, I would like to add another SPI port of the i.MX27, CSPI1, to control an LCD. To do that, I taught I had to change the board file like this :

static int imx27_interaxio_spi1_cs[] = {GPIO_PORTD + 21};

static int imx27_interaxio_spi0_cs[] = {GPIO_PORTD + 28};

static struct spi_imx_master imx27_interaxio_spi_1_data = {

    .chipselect = imx27_interaxio_spi1_cs,

    .num_chipselect = ARRAY_SIZE(imx27_interaxio_spi1_cs),

};

static struct spi_imx_master imx27_interaxio_spi_0_data = {

    .chipselect = imx27_interaxio_spi0_cs,

    .num_chipselect = ARRAY_SIZE(imx27_interaxio_spi0_cs),

};

static struct spi_board_info imx27_interaxio_spi_board_info[] = {

    {

      .name = "mc13783",

      .max_speed_hz = 3000000,

      .bus_num = 0,

      .chip_select = 0,

    },

    {

        .name = "LCD",

        .max_speed_hz = 2000000,

        .bus_num = 1,

        .chip_select = 0, 

    },

};

[…]

static int imx27_interaxio_devices_init(void)

{

  […]

  /* PMIC support */

  spi_register_board_info(imx27_interaxio_spi_board_info, ARRAY_SIZE(imx27_interaxio_spi_board_info));

  imx27_add_spi1(&imx27_interaxio_spi_1_data);

  imx27_add_spi0(&imx27_interaxio_spi_0_data);

[…]

However, I’m not sure I’m doing it right. E.g. for the bus_num element. As it is another ‘master’, I guess it should get another bus number. However, when digging a little in the code, in imx_spi_probe (imx_spi.c), bus_num of ‘master’ is never initialized, so always 0. A little further, when scanning for board info (scan_boardinfo in spi.c), bus_num of chip is compared to bus_num of master, which is always 0. For the existing implementation this was not a problem as the bus_num in the board info struct was also 0. For the added bus, the bus_num is 1, so the compare will validate to false and the device will not be created…

This is how I’m think it’s working. Am I correct ?

Am I doing something wrong ? Should I also use bus_num 0 for my additional SPI instead of 1 ?

Thanks in advance for helping me !

Filip Vanalme