No need to bitbang unless you want additional SPI ports available. Simply use 
the McSPI port controlled from the PRU.

Regards,
John




> On Dec 16, 2015, at 1:37 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Normally SPI's are good up to 100MHz, but this is seldom needed. I normally 
> set them up at 1MHz for initial debug (allows for cheaper instruments) and 
> then usually go to 10MHz which normally makes speed a non-issue and allows 
> for longer wires. 16MHz should be fine as well. I2C's often run around 1MHz 
> and are very dependent on length (i.e. capacitance). One needs to keep I2Cs 
> high when not used to minimize power due to pull-ups. SPI's, once you get 
> them going, are generally a better choice.
> 
> SPI through the PRU seems to be limited at around 21.2Mhz. At least an 
> implementation I was just reading about. It seemed that the author was bit 
> banging however. Using the other PRU core for the clk timer as well.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > Currently I'm fighting with WiFi; I had scripts to detect the wlanx device
> > using iw dev | grep "Interface" | awk '{printf $2}' but this is failing at
> > boot; it works fine after boot. I tried hard coding the wlanx device, but
> > now it seems to change; when I specify wlan0, it comes up as wlan1, and vice
> > versa? It seems wireless networking changed somewhat from my previous
> > version, and I haven't tracked down what yet. So wireless first, apt-gets
> > second, pips third, device trees fourth, prus fifth, and then tracking down
> > why previously debugged software stopped working. It might be interesting to
> > keep track of how many issues come up.
> 
> Sounds like the wifi device has a mac that changes..
> 
> Right a udev rule to push it back to wlan0..
> 
> here's an example of a udev rule we used on teh bbb's for the eth0:
> 
> https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-Networking:UsingasharedSDcardwithMultipleBeagleBone
>  
> <https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-Networking:UsingasharedSDcardwithMultipleBeagleBone>
> 
> For example, enp2s0 on my desktop:
> 
> $ sudo udevadm info -a /sys/class/net/enp2s0
> 
> Udevadm info starts with the device specified by the devpath and then
> walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device
> found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format.
> A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device
> and the attributes from one single parent device.
> 
>   looking at device 
> '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/0000:02:00.0/net/enp2s0':
>     KERNEL=="enp2s0"
>     SUBSYSTEM=="net"
>     DRIVER==""
>     ATTR{addr_assign_type}=="0"
>     ATTR{addr_len}=="6"
>     ATTR{address}=="bc:5f:f4:e5:9d:83"
>     ATTR{broadcast}=="ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"
>     ATTR{carrier}=="1"
>     ATTR{carrier_changes}=="1"
>     ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0"
>     ATTR{dev_port}=="0"
>     ATTR{dormant}=="0"
>     ATTR{duplex}=="full"
>     ATTR{flags}=="0x1003"
>     ATTR{gro_flush_timeout}=="0"
>     ATTR{ifalias}==""
>     ATTR{ifindex}=="2"
>     ATTR{iflink}=="2"
>     ATTR{link_mode}=="0"
>     ATTR{mtu}=="1500"
>     ATTR{name_assign_type}=="4"
>     ATTR{netdev_group}=="0"
>     ATTR{operstate}=="up"
>     ATTR{speed}=="1000"
>     ATTR{tx_queue_len}=="1000"
>     ATTR{type}=="1"
> 
>   looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/0000:02:00.0':
>     KERNELS=="0000:02:00.0"
>     SUBSYSTEMS=="pci"
>     DRIVERS=="alx"
>     ATTRS{broken_parity_status}=="0"
>     ATTRS{class}=="0x020000"
>     ATTRS{consistent_dma_mask_bits}=="64"
>     ATTRS{d3cold_allowed}=="1"
>     ATTRS{device}=="0x10a1"
>     ATTRS{dma_mask_bits}=="64"
>     ATTRS{driver_override}=="(null)"
>     ATTRS{enable}=="1"
>     ATTRS{irq}=="38"
>     ATTRS{local_cpulist}=="0-3"
>     ATTRS{local_cpus}=="f"
>     ATTRS{msi_bus}=="1"
>     ATTRS{numa_node}=="-1"
>     ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0x10a1"
>     ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x1849"
>     ATTRS{vendor}=="0x1969"
> 
>   looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0':
>     KERNELS=="0000:00:15.0"
>     SUBSYSTEMS=="pci"
>     DRIVERS=="pcieport"
>     ATTRS{broken_parity_status}=="0"
>     ATTRS{class}=="0x060400"
>     ATTRS{consistent_dma_mask_bits}=="32"
>     ATTRS{d3cold_allowed}=="0"
>     ATTRS{device}=="0x43a0"
>     ATTRS{dma_mask_bits}=="32"
>     ATTRS{driver_override}=="(null)"
>     ATTRS{enable}=="1"
>     ATTRS{irq}=="24"
>     ATTRS{local_cpulist}=="0-3"
>     ATTRS{local_cpus}=="f"
>     ATTRS{msi_bus}=="1"
>     ATTRS{numa_node}=="-1"
>     ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0x0000"
>     ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x1022"
>     ATTRS{vendor}=="0x1022"
> 
>   looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00':
>     KERNELS=="pci0000:00"
>     SUBSYSTEMS==""
>     DRIVERS==""
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
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