| ============================== |
| PXA2xx SPI on SSP driver HOWTO |
| ============================== |
| |
| This a mini HOWTO on the pxa2xx_spi driver. The driver turns a PXA2xx |
| synchronous serial port into an SPI master controller |
| (see Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst). The driver has the following features |
| |
| - Support for any PXA2xx and compatible SSP. |
| - SSP PIO and SSP DMA data transfers. |
| - External and Internal (SSPFRM) chip selects. |
| - Per slave device (chip) configuration. |
| - Full suspend, freeze, resume support. |
| |
| The driver is built around a &struct spi_message FIFO serviced by kernel |
| thread. The kernel thread, spi_pump_messages(), drives message FIFO and |
| is responsible for queuing SPI transactions and setting up and launching |
| the DMA or interrupt driven transfers. |
| |
| Declaring PXA2xx Master Controllers |
| ----------------------------------- |
| Typically, for a legacy platform, an SPI master is defined in the |
| arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c as a "platform device". The master configuration |
| is passed to the driver via a table found in include/linux/spi/pxa2xx_spi.h:: |
| |
| struct pxa2xx_spi_controller { |
| u16 num_chipselect; |
| u8 enable_dma; |
| ... |
| }; |
| |
| The "pxa2xx_spi_controller.num_chipselect" field is used to determine the number of |
| slave device (chips) attached to this SPI master. |
| |
| The "pxa2xx_spi_controller.enable_dma" field informs the driver that SSP DMA should |
| be used. This caused the driver to acquire two DMA channels: Rx channel and |
| Tx channel. The Rx channel has a higher DMA service priority than the Tx channel. |
| See the "PXA2xx Developer Manual" section "DMA Controller". |
| |
| For the new platforms the description of the controller and peripheral devices |
| comes from Device Tree or ACPI. |
| |
| NSSP MASTER SAMPLE |
| ------------------ |
| Below is a sample configuration using the PXA255 NSSP for a legacy platform:: |
| |
| static struct resource pxa_spi_nssp_resources[] = { |
| [0] = { |
| .start = __PREG(SSCR0_P(2)), /* Start address of NSSP */ |
| .end = __PREG(SSCR0_P(2)) + 0x2c, /* Range of registers */ |
| .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM, |
| }, |
| [1] = { |
| .start = IRQ_NSSP, /* NSSP IRQ */ |
| .end = IRQ_NSSP, |
| .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ, |
| }, |
| }; |
| |
| static struct pxa2xx_spi_controller pxa_nssp_master_info = { |
| .num_chipselect = 1, /* Matches the number of chips attached to NSSP */ |
| .enable_dma = 1, /* Enables NSSP DMA */ |
| }; |
| |
| static struct platform_device pxa_spi_nssp = { |
| .name = "pxa2xx-spi", /* MUST BE THIS VALUE, so device match driver */ |
| .id = 2, /* Bus number, MUST MATCH SSP number 1..n */ |
| .resource = pxa_spi_nssp_resources, |
| .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(pxa_spi_nssp_resources), |
| .dev = { |
| .platform_data = &pxa_nssp_master_info, /* Passed to driver */ |
| }, |
| }; |
| |
| static struct platform_device *devices[] __initdata = { |
| &pxa_spi_nssp, |
| }; |
| |
| static void __init board_init(void) |
| { |
| (void)platform_add_device(devices, ARRAY_SIZE(devices)); |
| } |
| |
| Declaring Slave Devices |
| ----------------------- |
| Typically, for a legacy platform, each SPI slave (chip) is defined in the |
| arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c using the "spi_board_info" structure found in |
| "linux/spi/spi.h". See "Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst" for additional |
| information. |
| |
| Each slave device attached to the PXA must provide slave specific configuration |
| information via the structure "pxa2xx_spi_chip" found in |
| "include/linux/spi/pxa2xx_spi.h". The pxa2xx_spi master controller driver |
| will uses the configuration whenever the driver communicates with the slave |
| device. All fields are optional. |
| |
| :: |
| |
| struct pxa2xx_spi_chip { |
| u8 tx_threshold; |
| u8 rx_threshold; |
| u8 dma_burst_size; |
| u32 timeout; |
| u8 enable_loopback; |
| void (*cs_control)(u32 command); |
| }; |
| |
| The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.tx_threshold" and "pxa2xx_spi_chip.rx_threshold" fields are |
| used to configure the SSP hardware FIFO. These fields are critical to the |
| performance of pxa2xx_spi driver and misconfiguration will result in rx |
| FIFO overruns (especially in PIO mode transfers). Good default values are:: |
| |
| .tx_threshold = 8, |
| .rx_threshold = 8, |
| |
| The range is 1 to 16 where zero indicates "use default". |
| |
| The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.dma_burst_size" field is used to configure PXA2xx DMA |
| engine and is related the "spi_device.bits_per_word" field. Read and understand |
| the PXA2xx "Developer Manual" sections on the DMA controller and SSP Controllers |
| to determine the correct value. An SSP configured for byte-wide transfers would |
| use a value of 8. The driver will determine a reasonable default if |
| dma_burst_size == 0. |
| |
| The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.timeout" fields is used to efficiently handle |
| trailing bytes in the SSP receiver FIFO. The correct value for this field is |
| dependent on the SPI bus speed ("spi_board_info.max_speed_hz") and the specific |
| slave device. Please note that the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte |
| timeouts and must busy-wait any trailing bytes. |
| |
| The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.enable_loopback" field is used to place the SSP porting |
| into internal loopback mode. In this mode the SSP controller internally |
| connects the SSPTX pin to the SSPRX pin. This is useful for initial setup |
| testing. |
| |
| The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.cs_control" field is used to point to a board specific |
| function for asserting/deasserting a slave device chip select. If the field is |
| NULL, the pxa2xx_spi master controller driver assumes that the SSP port is |
| configured to use GPIO or SSPFRM instead. |
| |
| NOTE: the SPI driver cannot control the chip select if SSPFRM is used, so the |
| chipselect is dropped after each spi_transfer. Most devices need chip select |
| asserted around the complete message. Use SSPFRM as a GPIO (through a descriptor) |
| to accommodate these chips. |
| |
| |
| NSSP SLAVE SAMPLE |
| ----------------- |
| For a legacy platform or in some other cases, the pxa2xx_spi_chip structure |
| is passed to the pxa2xx_spi driver in the "spi_board_info.controller_data" |
| field. Below is a sample configuration using the PXA255 NSSP. |
| |
| :: |
| |
| /* Chip Select control for the CS8415A SPI slave device */ |
| static void cs8415a_cs_control(u32 command) |
| { |
| if (command & PXA2XX_CS_ASSERT) |
| GPCR(2) = GPIO_bit(2); |
| else |
| GPSR(2) = GPIO_bit(2); |
| } |
| |
| /* Chip Select control for the CS8405A SPI slave device */ |
| static void cs8405a_cs_control(u32 command) |
| { |
| if (command & PXA2XX_CS_ASSERT) |
| GPCR(3) = GPIO_bit(3); |
| else |
| GPSR(3) = GPIO_bit(3); |
| } |
| |
| static struct pxa2xx_spi_chip cs8415a_chip_info = { |
| .tx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */ |
| .rx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */ |
| .dma_burst_size = 8, /* Byte wide transfers used so 8 byte bursts */ |
| .timeout = 235, /* See Intel documentation */ |
| .cs_control = cs8415a_cs_control, /* Use external chip select */ |
| }; |
| |
| static struct pxa2xx_spi_chip cs8405a_chip_info = { |
| .tx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */ |
| .rx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */ |
| .dma_burst_size = 8, /* Byte wide transfers used so 8 byte bursts */ |
| .timeout = 235, /* See Intel documentation */ |
| .cs_control = cs8405a_cs_control, /* Use external chip select */ |
| }; |
| |
| static struct spi_board_info streetracer_spi_board_info[] __initdata = { |
| { |
| .modalias = "cs8415a", /* Name of spi_driver for this device */ |
| .max_speed_hz = 3686400, /* Run SSP as fast a possbile */ |
| .bus_num = 2, /* Framework bus number */ |
| .chip_select = 0, /* Framework chip select */ |
| .platform_data = NULL; /* No spi_driver specific config */ |
| .controller_data = &cs8415a_chip_info, /* Master chip config */ |
| .irq = STREETRACER_APCI_IRQ, /* Slave device interrupt */ |
| }, |
| { |
| .modalias = "cs8405a", /* Name of spi_driver for this device */ |
| .max_speed_hz = 3686400, /* Run SSP as fast a possbile */ |
| .bus_num = 2, /* Framework bus number */ |
| .chip_select = 1, /* Framework chip select */ |
| .controller_data = &cs8405a_chip_info, /* Master chip config */ |
| .irq = STREETRACER_APCI_IRQ, /* Slave device interrupt */ |
| }, |
| }; |
| |
| static void __init streetracer_init(void) |
| { |
| spi_register_board_info(streetracer_spi_board_info, |
| ARRAY_SIZE(streetracer_spi_board_info)); |
| } |
| |
| |
| DMA and PIO I/O Support |
| ----------------------- |
| The pxa2xx_spi driver supports both DMA and interrupt driven PIO message |
| transfers. The driver defaults to PIO mode and DMA transfers must be enabled |
| by setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_controller" structure. |
| For the newer platforms, that are known to support DMA, the driver will enable |
| it automatically and try it first with a possible fallback to PIO. The DMA |
| mode supports both coherent and stream based DMA mappings. |
| |
| The following logic is used to determine the type of I/O to be used on |
| a per "spi_transfer" basis:: |
| |
| if !enable_dma then |
| always use PIO transfers |
| |
| if spi_message.len > 8191 then |
| print "rate limited" warning |
| use PIO transfers |
| |
| if spi_message.is_dma_mapped and rx_dma_buf != 0 and tx_dma_buf != 0 then |
| use coherent DMA mode |
| |
| if rx_buf and tx_buf are aligned on 8 byte boundary then |
| use streaming DMA mode |
| |
| otherwise |
| use PIO transfer |
| |
| THANKS TO |
| --------- |
| David Brownell and others for mentoring the development of this driver. |