Invalid mode: spi

SPI1 used to work.
Update/Upgraded my BBBW.

debian@beaglebone:~/pylepton$ uname -a
Linux beaglebone 4.4.88-ti-r125 #1 SMP Thu Sep 21 19:23:24 UTC 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

Trying to use SPI1 but config-pin returns “Invalid mode: spi”

For example:

debian@beaglebone:~/pylepton$ config-pin P9.28 spi
Invalid mode: spi

debian@beaglebone:~/pylepton$ config-pin P9.29 spi

(ok)

debian@beaglebone:~/pylepton$ config-pin P9.30 spi

(ok)

debian@beaglebone:~/pylepton$ config-pin P9.31 spi
Invalid mode: spi

Even i2c pins stopped.

debian@beaglebone:~$ config-pin P9.19 i2c
P9_19 pinmux file not found!
Pin has no cape: P9_19

debian@beaglebone:~$ config-pin P9.20 i2c
P9_20 pinmux file not found!
Pin has no cape: P9_20

Hallo Davide, did you found solution? I have a same problem.
Best regards!

Hi! No, sorry. I restored an old image and I'm not upgrading. If you eventually solve this, please let me know.

I upgraded kernel/system but still I cannot config-pin.

debian@beaglebone:~$ config-pin P9.28 spi
Invalid mode: spi
debian@beaglebone:~$ config-pin P9.29 spi
debian@beaglebone:~$ config-pin P9.31 spi
Invalid mode: spi
debian@beaglebone:~$ sudo /opt/scripts/tools/version.sh
[sudo] password for debian:
git:/opt/scripts/:[fac16ce5790a9b98fe69edd11c1e41f31685990c]
eeprom:[A335BNLTBWA51650BBWG2922]
dogtag:[BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2017-09-21]
bootloader:[microSD-(push-button)]:[/dev/mmcblk0]:[U-Boot 2017.09-00003-g11d92ba68a]
kernel:[4.4.91-ti-r139]
nodejs:[v6.12.2]
uboot_overlay_options:[enable_uboot_overlays=1]
uboot_overlay_options:[disable_uboot_overlay_emmc=1]
uboot_overlay_options:[disable_uboot_overlay_video=1]
uboot_overlay_options:[uboot_overlay_pru=/lib/firmware/AM335X-PRU-RPROC-4-4-TI-00A0.dtbo]
uboot_overlay_options:[enable_uboot_cape_universal=1]
pkg:[bb-cape-overlays]:[4.4.20171207.0-0rcnee1~stretch+20171207]
pkg:[bb-wl18xx-firmware]:[1.20170829-0rcnee1~stretch+20170829]
pkg:[firmware-ti-connectivity]:[20170823-1rcnee0~stretch+20170830]

Dmesg: https://pastebin.com/DrxsAt5T

I upgraded kernel/system but still I cannot config-pin.

debian@beaglebone:~$ config-pin P9.28 spi
Invalid mode: spi

config-pin P9.28 spi_cs

debian@beaglebone:~$ config-pin P9.29 spi
debian@beaglebone:~$ config-pin P9.31 spi
Invalid mode: spi

config-pin P9.31 spi_sclk

This got changed recently, because there are pin's that have multiple
spi options aka (spi/spi_cs/spi_sclk)...

P9.42 (spi_cs/spi_sclk)

Regards,

Hi Robert,
thank you. A couple of questions:

  1. What about i2c then? Doesn’t need to set it with config-pin?
  2. Where can I keep me updated about this changes? Is there a webpage?

Hi Robert,
thank you. A couple of questions:

1) What about i2c then? Doesn't need to set it with config-pin?

Most of the i2c pins should be defaulted to i2c, but if they are not,
then config-pin i2c is needed..

2) Where can I keep me updated about this changes? Is there a webpage?

the spi pins are the only breaking change. The pocketbeagle has a lot
of pins that have multiple spi modes, in the process of fixing that
one, i discovered there was another spi mode available on P9.42

The other recent change, pin's P9_19 & P9_20 are now carved out, and
you can use config-pin to swich them from their default i2c mode to
can/etc..

Otherwise just use config-pin -l

debian@test-bbb-2:~$ config-pin -l P9.42
default gpio gpio_pu gpio_pd spi_cs spi_sclk uart pwm

Regards,

Hi Davide,

bellow is the explanation how you can configure the pins.

I worked on Debian 9.1. from 31/08/2017. Kernelversion is 4.9.45-ti-57

sudo apt update

· **sudo apt install bb-cape-overlays**

· **cd /opt/scripts/tools**

· **sudo git pull**

· **sudo ./update_kernel.sh --lts-4_4 --ti-channel**

· **git clone https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays**

· **cd ./bb.org-overlays**

· **./install.sh**

· sudo reboot

· cd bb.org-overlays/tools/pinmux-generator

· sudo nano BeagleBone_Black_config-pin.txt

add this after line 414:

P9_19_PRU=“45”

P9_19_GPIO=“13”

P9_19_PIN=“i2c”

P9_19_PINMUX=“default gpio gpio_pu gpio_pd spi_cs can i2c pru_uart timer”

P9_19_INFO=“i2c2_scl default gpio0_13 gpio0_13 gpio0_13 spi1_cs1 dcan0_rx i2c2_scl pru_uart timer5”

P9_19_CAPE=“”

P9_20_PRU=“44”

P9_20_GPIO=“12”

P9_20_PIN=“i2c”

P9_20_PINMUX=“default gpio gpio_pu gpio_pd spi_cs can i2c pru_uart timer”

P9_20_INFO=“i2c2_sda default gpio0_12 gpio0_12 gpio0_12 spi1_cs0 dcan0_tx i2c2_sda pru_uart timer6”

P9_20_CAPE=“”

sudo nano BeagleBone_Black.dts

On my BBB Wireless only spi works. Invalid mode only comes up when I use spi_cs or spi_sclk

That's fine, you just have an older kernel/config-pin

Regards,