From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Francois Dagenais <jeff.dagenais@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SPI controller laying around...
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:09:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik-kwS=0qMaeLJi72bRT_ZsP9iH7O703OzVOFen@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300202610.8754.40.camel@jfddesk>
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:23, Jean-Francois Dagenais wrote:
> I need to perform some tests and I am in need of any SPI controller I
> could use through the standard SPI master framework of the kernel.
>
> I could perhaps hack the BIOS SPI for example (fool around with the chip
> select and solder some wires to export to a bread board. Or I am sure my
> workstation has one on the motherboard (dell vostro 430) for some odd
> functionnality... but it's not enumerated and probed as an SPI master.
>
> Or maybe even old ethernet cards I have lying around which could be
> hacked?
>
> Or a simple USB-SPI dongle? Anyone knows one that will just plain works
> with the kernel?
>
> Any thoughts?
if you have just 4 GPIOs, you can use the SPI bit banging bus
-mike
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2011-03-15 15:23 SPI controller laying around Jean-Francois Dagenais
2011-03-15 19:09 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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2011-03-15 15:40 Jean-Francois Dagenais
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