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2PXA2xx SPI on SSP driver HOWTO
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4
5This a mini howto on the pxa2xx_spi driver.  The driver turns a PXA2xx
6synchronous serial port into a SPI master controller
7(see Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst). The driver has the following features
8
9- Support for any PXA2xx SSP
10- SSP PIO and SSP DMA data transfers.
11- External and Internal (SSPFRM) chip selects.
12- Per slave device (chip) configuration.
13- Full suspend, freeze, resume support.
14
15The driver is built around a "spi_message" fifo serviced by workqueue and a
16tasklet. The workqueue, "pump_messages", drives message fifo and the tasklet
17(pump_transfer) is responsible for queuing SPI transactions and setting up and
18launching the dma/interrupt driven transfers.
19
20Declaring PXA2xx Master Controllers
21-----------------------------------
22Typically a SPI master is defined in the arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c as a
23"platform device".  The master configuration is passed to the driver via a table
24found in include/linux/spi/pxa2xx_spi.h::
25
26  struct pxa2xx_spi_controller {
27	u16 num_chipselect;
28	u8 enable_dma;
29  };
30
31The "pxa2xx_spi_controller.num_chipselect" field is used to determine the number of
32slave device (chips) attached to this SPI master.
33
34The "pxa2xx_spi_controller.enable_dma" field informs the driver that SSP DMA should
35be used.  This caused the driver to acquire two DMA channels: rx_channel and
36tx_channel.  The rx_channel has a higher DMA service priority the tx_channel.
37See the "PXA2xx Developer Manual" section "DMA Controller".
38
39NSSP MASTER SAMPLE
40------------------
41Below is a sample configuration using the PXA255 NSSP::
42
43  static struct resource pxa_spi_nssp_resources[] = {
44	[0] = {
45		.start	= __PREG(SSCR0_P(2)), /* Start address of NSSP */
46		.end	= __PREG(SSCR0_P(2)) + 0x2c, /* Range of registers */
47		.flags	= IORESOURCE_MEM,
48	},
49	[1] = {
50		.start	= IRQ_NSSP, /* NSSP IRQ */
51		.end	= IRQ_NSSP,
52		.flags	= IORESOURCE_IRQ,
53	},
54  };
55
56  static struct pxa2xx_spi_controller pxa_nssp_master_info = {
57	.num_chipselect = 1, /* Matches the number of chips attached to NSSP */
58	.enable_dma = 1, /* Enables NSSP DMA */
59  };
60
61  static struct platform_device pxa_spi_nssp = {
62	.name = "pxa2xx-spi", /* MUST BE THIS VALUE, so device match driver */
63	.id = 2, /* Bus number, MUST MATCH SSP number 1..n */
64	.resource = pxa_spi_nssp_resources,
65	.num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(pxa_spi_nssp_resources),
66	.dev = {
67		.platform_data = &pxa_nssp_master_info, /* Passed to driver */
68	},
69  };
70
71  static struct platform_device *devices[] __initdata = {
72	&pxa_spi_nssp,
73  };
74
75  static void __init board_init(void)
76  {
77	(void)platform_add_device(devices, ARRAY_SIZE(devices));
78  }
79
80Declaring Slave Devices
81-----------------------
82Typically each SPI slave (chip) is defined in the arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c
83using the "spi_board_info" structure found in "linux/spi/spi.h". See
84"Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst" for additional information.
85
86Each slave device attached to the PXA must provide slave specific configuration
87information via the structure "pxa2xx_spi_chip" found in
88"include/linux/spi/pxa2xx_spi.h".  The pxa2xx_spi master controller driver
89will uses the configuration whenever the driver communicates with the slave
90device. All fields are optional.
91
92::
93
94  struct pxa2xx_spi_chip {
95	u8 tx_threshold;
96	u8 rx_threshold;
97	u8 dma_burst_size;
98	u32 timeout;
99	u8 enable_loopback;
100	void (*cs_control)(u32 command);
101  };
102
103The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.tx_threshold" and "pxa2xx_spi_chip.rx_threshold" fields are
104used to configure the SSP hardware fifo.  These fields are critical to the
105performance of pxa2xx_spi driver and misconfiguration will result in rx
106fifo overruns (especially in PIO mode transfers). Good default values are::
107
108	.tx_threshold = 8,
109	.rx_threshold = 8,
110
111The range is 1 to 16 where zero indicates "use default".
112
113The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.dma_burst_size" field is used to configure PXA2xx DMA
114engine and is related the "spi_device.bits_per_word" field.  Read and understand
115the PXA2xx "Developer Manual" sections on the DMA controller and SSP Controllers
116to determine the correct value. An SSP configured for byte-wide transfers would
117use a value of 8. The driver will determine a reasonable default if
118dma_burst_size == 0.
119
120The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.timeout" fields is used to efficiently handle
121trailing bytes in the SSP receiver fifo.  The correct value for this field is
122dependent on the SPI bus speed ("spi_board_info.max_speed_hz") and the specific
123slave device.  Please note that the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte
124timeouts and must busy-wait any trailing bytes.
125
126The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.enable_loopback" field is used to place the SSP porting
127into internal loopback mode.  In this mode the SSP controller internally
128connects the SSPTX pin to the SSPRX pin.  This is useful for initial setup
129testing.
130
131The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.cs_control" field is used to point to a board specific
132function for asserting/deasserting a slave device chip select.  If the field is
133NULL, the pxa2xx_spi master controller driver assumes that the SSP port is
134configured to use SSPFRM instead.
135
136NOTE: the SPI driver cannot control the chip select if SSPFRM is used, so the
137chipselect is dropped after each spi_transfer.  Most devices need chip select
138asserted around the complete message.  Use SSPFRM as a GPIO (through cs_control)
139to accommodate these chips.
140
141
142NSSP SLAVE SAMPLE
143-----------------
144The pxa2xx_spi_chip structure is passed to the pxa2xx_spi driver in the
145"spi_board_info.controller_data" field. Below is a sample configuration using
146the PXA255 NSSP.
147
148::
149
150  /* Chip Select control for the CS8415A SPI slave device */
151  static void cs8415a_cs_control(u32 command)
152  {
153	if (command & PXA2XX_CS_ASSERT)
154		GPCR(2) = GPIO_bit(2);
155	else
156		GPSR(2) = GPIO_bit(2);
157  }
158
159  /* Chip Select control for the CS8405A SPI slave device */
160  static void cs8405a_cs_control(u32 command)
161  {
162	if (command & PXA2XX_CS_ASSERT)
163		GPCR(3) = GPIO_bit(3);
164	else
165		GPSR(3) = GPIO_bit(3);
166  }
167
168  static struct pxa2xx_spi_chip cs8415a_chip_info = {
169	.tx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */
170	.rx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */
171	.dma_burst_size = 8, /* Byte wide transfers used so 8 byte bursts */
172	.timeout = 235, /* See Intel documentation */
173	.cs_control = cs8415a_cs_control, /* Use external chip select */
174  };
175
176  static struct pxa2xx_spi_chip cs8405a_chip_info = {
177	.tx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */
178	.rx_threshold = 8, /* SSP hardward FIFO threshold */
179	.dma_burst_size = 8, /* Byte wide transfers used so 8 byte bursts */
180	.timeout = 235, /* See Intel documentation */
181	.cs_control = cs8405a_cs_control, /* Use external chip select */
182  };
183
184  static struct spi_board_info streetracer_spi_board_info[] __initdata = {
185	{
186		.modalias = "cs8415a", /* Name of spi_driver for this device */
187		.max_speed_hz = 3686400, /* Run SSP as fast a possbile */
188		.bus_num = 2, /* Framework bus number */
189		.chip_select = 0, /* Framework chip select */
190		.platform_data = NULL; /* No spi_driver specific config */
191		.controller_data = &cs8415a_chip_info, /* Master chip config */
192		.irq = STREETRACER_APCI_IRQ, /* Slave device interrupt */
193	},
194	{
195		.modalias = "cs8405a", /* Name of spi_driver for this device */
196		.max_speed_hz = 3686400, /* Run SSP as fast a possbile */
197		.bus_num = 2, /* Framework bus number */
198		.chip_select = 1, /* Framework chip select */
199		.controller_data = &cs8405a_chip_info, /* Master chip config */
200		.irq = STREETRACER_APCI_IRQ, /* Slave device interrupt */
201	},
202  };
203
204  static void __init streetracer_init(void)
205  {
206	spi_register_board_info(streetracer_spi_board_info,
207				ARRAY_SIZE(streetracer_spi_board_info));
208  }
209
210
211DMA and PIO I/O Support
212-----------------------
213The pxa2xx_spi driver supports both DMA and interrupt driven PIO message
214transfers.  The driver defaults to PIO mode and DMA transfers must be enabled
215by setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_controller" structure.  The DMA
216mode supports both coherent and stream based DMA mappings.
217
218The following logic is used to determine the type of I/O to be used on
219a per "spi_transfer" basis::
220
221  if !enable_dma then
222	always use PIO transfers
223
224  if spi_message.len > 8191 then
225	print "rate limited" warning
226	use PIO transfers
227
228  if spi_message.is_dma_mapped and rx_dma_buf != 0 and tx_dma_buf != 0 then
229	use coherent DMA mode
230
231  if rx_buf and tx_buf are aligned on 8 byte boundary then
232	use streaming DMA mode
233
234  otherwise
235	use PIO transfer
236
237THANKS TO
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239
240David Brownell and others for mentoring the development of this driver.
241