BCM2835: SPI on Linux 5.10

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi Deniz,

regarding to the mainline kernel especially for SPI, you are a bit out
of the comfort zone. config.txt or raspi-config wont help you here.

Could you please name the SPI device?

How do you want to access it? Via SPI device (userspace) or directly
with a SPI protocol driver (kernelspace)?

Regards
Stefan

Am 28.04.21 um 19:53 schrieb Deniz Uğur:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to ask for some guidance on enabling SPI with Linux 5.10 mainline kernel. I’m trying to use EVL RTOS [1] but even without using the Dovetail interface, the vanilla Linux fails to bring up SPI device. There is no error log on /var/log/syslog so I’m not sure what other form of log I can provide.
>
> I simply configure the kernel with multi_v7_defconfig and compile it using the armhf cross-compiler. After the build, I install the modules, copy the image and appropriate DTB file. On config.txt, I add device_tree and kernel parameters and nothing else. The base image is RaspianOS Lite, so I’ve enabled the SPI interface via raspi-config too. I have also tried it on Debian’s and Ubuntu’s RPi image but none of them changed anything. I think there is a configuration problem or SPI isn’t supported on Linux 5.10 (which I highly doubt). I haven’t touched the defconfig because SPI was already enabled in the config.
>
> I’ve tested this on RPi 3B and I’m going to test it on 4B this evening.
>
> I’m highly interested in the comments you guys have on this subject and any possible solution to bring up the SPI device.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Deniz.
>
> [1]: https://evlproject.org/
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