1 PXA2xx SPI on SSP driver HOWTO
2 ===================================================
3 This a mini howto on the pxa2xx_spi driver. The driver turns a PXA2xx
4 synchronous serial port into a SPI master controller
5 (see Documentation/spi/spi-summary). The driver has the following features
7 - Support for any PXA2xx SSP
8 - SSP PIO and SSP DMA data transfers.
9 - External and Internal (SSPFRM) chip selects.
10 - Per slave device (chip) configuration.
11 - Full suspend, freeze, resume support.
13 The driver is built around a "spi_message" fifo serviced by workqueue and a
14 tasklet. The workqueue, "pump_messages", drives message fifo and the tasklet
15 (pump_transfer) is responsible for queuing SPI transactions and setting up and
16 launching the dma/interrupt driven transfers.
18 Declaring PXA2xx Master Controllers
19 -----------------------------------
20 Typically a SPI master is defined in the arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c as a
21 "platform device". The master configuration is passed to the driver via a table
22 found in include/linux/spi/pxa2xx_spi.h:
24 struct pxa2xx_spi_master {
29 The "pxa2xx_spi_master.num_chipselect" field is used to determine the number of
30 slave device (chips) attached to this SPI master.
32 The "pxa2xx_spi_master.enable_dma" field informs the driver that SSP DMA should
33 be used. This caused the driver to acquire two DMA channels: rx_channel and
34 tx_channel. The rx_channel has a higher DMA service priority the tx_channel.
35 See the "PXA2xx Developer Manual" section "DMA Controller".
39 Below is a sample configuration using the PXA255 NSSP.
41 static struct resource pxa_spi_nssp_resources[] = {
43 .start = __PREG(SSCR0_P(2)), /* Start address of NSSP */
44 .end = __PREG(SSCR0_P(2)) + 0x2c, /* Range of registers */
45 .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM,
48 .start = IRQ_NSSP, /* NSSP IRQ */
50 .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ,
54 static struct pxa2xx_spi_master pxa_nssp_master_info = {
55 .num_chipselect = 1, /* Matches the number of chips attached to NSSP */
56 .enable_dma = 1, /* Enables NSSP DMA */
59 static struct platform_device pxa_spi_nssp = {
60 .name = "pxa2xx-spi", /* MUST BE THIS VALUE, so device match driver */
61 .id = 2, /* Bus number, MUST MATCH SSP number 1..n */
62 .resource = pxa_spi_nssp_resources,
63 .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(pxa_spi_nssp_resources),
65 .platform_data = &pxa_nssp_master_info, /* Passed to driver */
69 static struct platform_device *devices[] __initdata = {
73 static void __init board_init(void)
75 (void)platform_add_device(devices, ARRAY_SIZE(devices));
78 Declaring Slave Devices
79 -----------------------
80 Typically each SPI slave (chip) is defined in the arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c
81 using the "spi_board_info" structure found in "linux/spi/spi.h". See
82 "Documentation/spi/spi-summary" for additional information.
84 Each slave device attached to the PXA must provide slave specific configuration
85 information via the structure "pxa2xx_spi_chip" found in
86 "include/linux/spi/pxa2xx_spi.h". The pxa2xx_spi master controller driver
87 will uses the configuration whenever the driver communicates with the slave
88 device. All fields are optional.
90 struct pxa2xx_spi_chip {
96 void (*cs_control)(u32 command);
99 The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.tx_threshold" and "pxa2xx_spi_chip.rx_threshold" fields are
100 used to configure the SSP hardware fifo. These fields are critical to the
101 performance of pxa2xx_spi driver and misconfiguration will result in rx
102 fifo overruns (especially in PIO mode transfers). Good default values are
107 The range is 1 to 16 where zero indicates "use default".
109 The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.dma_burst_size" field is used to configure PXA2xx DMA
110 engine and is related the "spi_device.bits_per_word" field. Read and understand
111 the PXA2xx "Developer Manual" sections on the DMA controller and SSP Controllers
112 to determine the correct value. An SSP configured for byte-wide transfers would
113 use a value of 8. The driver will determine a reasonable default if
116 The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.timeout" fields is used to efficiently handle
117 trailing bytes in the SSP receiver fifo. The correct value for this field is
118 dependent on the SPI bus speed ("spi_board_info.max_speed_hz") and the specific
119 slave device. Please note that the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte
120 timeouts and must busy-wait any trailing bytes.
122 The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.enable_loopback" field is used to place the SSP porting
123 into internal loopback mode. In this mode the SSP controller internally
124 connects the SSPTX pin to the SSPRX pin. This is useful for initial setup
127 The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.cs_control" field is used to point to a board specific
128 function for asserting/deasserting a slave device chip select. If the field is
129 NULL, the pxa2xx_spi master controller driver assumes that the SSP port is
130 configured to use SSPFRM instead.
132 NOTE: the SPI driver cannot control the chip select if SSPFRM is used, so the
133 chipselect is dropped after each spi_transfer. Most devices need chip select
134 asserted around the complete message. Use SSPFRM as a GPIO (through cs_control)
135 to accommodate these chips.
140 The pxa2xx_spi_chip structure is passed to the pxa2xx_spi driver in the
141 "spi_board_info.controller_data" field. Below is a sample configuration using
144 /* Chip Select control for the CS8415A SPI slave device */
145 static void cs8415a_cs_control(u32 command)
147 if (command & PXA2XX_CS_ASSERT)
148 GPCR(2) = GPIO_bit(2);
150 GPSR(2) = GPIO_bit(2);
153 /* Chip Select control for the CS8405A SPI slave device */
154 static void cs8405a_cs_control(u32 command)
156 if (command & PXA2XX_CS_ASSERT)
157 GPCR(3) = GPIO_bit(3);
159 GPSR(3) = GPIO_bit(3);
162 static struct pxa2xx_spi_chip cs8415a_chip_info = {
163 .tx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */
164 .rx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */
165 .dma_burst_size = 8, /* Byte wide transfers used so 8 byte bursts */
166 .timeout = 235, /* See Intel documentation */
167 .cs_control = cs8415a_cs_control, /* Use external chip select */
170 static struct pxa2xx_spi_chip cs8405a_chip_info = {
171 .tx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */
172 .rx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */
173 .dma_burst_size = 8, /* Byte wide transfers used so 8 byte bursts */
174 .timeout = 235, /* See Intel documentation */
175 .cs_control = cs8405a_cs_control, /* Use external chip select */
178 static struct spi_board_info streetracer_spi_board_info[] __initdata = {
180 .modalias = "cs8415a", /* Name of spi_driver for this device */
181 .max_speed_hz = 3686400, /* Run SSP as fast a possbile */
182 .bus_num = 2, /* Framework bus number */
183 .chip_select = 0, /* Framework chip select */
184 .platform_data = NULL; /* No spi_driver specific config */
185 .controller_data = &cs8415a_chip_info, /* Master chip config */
186 .irq = STREETRACER_APCI_IRQ, /* Slave device interrupt */
189 .modalias = "cs8405a", /* Name of spi_driver for this device */
190 .max_speed_hz = 3686400, /* Run SSP as fast a possbile */
191 .bus_num = 2, /* Framework bus number */
192 .chip_select = 1, /* Framework chip select */
193 .controller_data = &cs8405a_chip_info, /* Master chip config */
194 .irq = STREETRACER_APCI_IRQ, /* Slave device interrupt */
198 static void __init streetracer_init(void)
200 spi_register_board_info(streetracer_spi_board_info,
201 ARRAY_SIZE(streetracer_spi_board_info));
205 DMA and PIO I/O Support
206 -----------------------
207 The pxa2xx_spi driver supports both DMA and interrupt driven PIO message
208 transfers. The driver defaults to PIO mode and DMA transfers must be enabled
209 by setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure. The DMA
210 mode supports both coherent and stream based DMA mappings.
212 The following logic is used to determine the type of I/O to be used on
213 a per "spi_transfer" basis:
216 always use PIO transfers
218 if spi_message.len > 8191 then
219 print "rate limited" warning
222 if spi_message.is_dma_mapped and rx_dma_buf != 0 and tx_dma_buf != 0 then
223 use coherent DMA mode
225 if rx_buf and tx_buf are aligned on 8 byte boundary then
226 use streaming DMA mode
234 David Brownell and others for mentoring the development of this driver.