ARM SPI support

Tom Everett tom at khubla.com
Thu May 16 17:28:14 UTC 2013


Well it would be the Pi, so that's a Broadcom
BCM2835<http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM2835>
.

Here's the datasheet

http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BCM2835-ARM-Peripherals.pdf





On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
> On May 16, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Tom Everett wrote:
>
> > Good morning ARM list.
> >
> > So, having dove into UART support, I'm not learning a bit about SPI.  I
> > don't see a driver here:
> >
> > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/conf/NOTES?view=markup
> >
> > and the SIO man page doesn't appear to mention it.
> >
> > Is there SPI support in FreeBSD?
>
> spi support isn't done through the UART in FreeBSD.  There's some support
> for SPI bus devices, but not a lot. Which chip and what are you trying to
> accomplish?
>
> Warner
>
>


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