[PATCH 7/7] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Add support for TCFQ transfer mode

BhuvanChandra.DV bhuvanchandra.dv at toradex.com
Thu Jan 29 04:53:57 PST 2015


On 01/29/2015 05:43 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:58:25AM +0000, BhuvanChandra.DV wrote:
>
>> As far as i understood the major difference between the two modes are when
>> the interrupt to trigger, as EOQ mode will trigger the interrupt at end of
>> queue and TCF will trigger the interrupt at every frame transfer. Probably
>> mode selection shouldn't be a device tree property, but i don't see any
>> automatic way to choose between the modes.
>> Maybe a config would be more appropriate?
> Or if there's either no particular reason to choose one over the other
> or one is always better then just pick one in the driver and don't worry
> about implementing both.

Among the two, EOQ would be better since with TCF, interrupts are generated at
every frame transfer, which could be a problem at higher frequencies.
I think we can omit this patch then.





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