Ben Gamari wrote:
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Subject: GPIO chip select support in omap2_mcspi driverHey,
Recently I have been looking to use a BeagleBoard to drive several
serial ADCs and DACs in a data acquisition and analysis setup. Unfortunately, the
BeagleBoard is severely limited by the number of SPI controllers it
exposes on the expansion connector (McSPI3 with 2 CS lines and McSPI4
with one). This is insufficient for our application and thus I have been
investigating adding support to the mcspi driver for using GPIO lines as
chip select lines, as is done in the pxa2xx, bfin5xx, and s3c24xx drivers.To this end, I have a few questions about how this support was
implemented. First, it seems that the s3c24xx driver is built on the
spi_bitbang driver, despite interfacing with a dedicated hardware SPI
controller. What is the reason for this? Was this done specifically for
the purpose of incorporating support for GPIO CS pins?
The spi_bitbang driver also has a really useful spi queue and workqueue
built into it, which is what the s3c24xx spi driver actually bothers to
use.