Andrew,

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:41 -0500, Andrew Elder wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> I'm disappointed in TI's position on this.
> 
> This page
> <http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tms320dm6446.html>
> clearly shows SPI as one of the available peripherals, so to my way of
> thinking TI should be providing an official Linux driver for it. Or at
> least working towards providing an official SPI driver.
> 
> If EVMs for a particular processor do not expose all  peripherals then
> the EVMs need to be updated.
> 
> How does TI internally test that the SPI port works at all ?

It has been tested on a DM6467 as it was required by a TI customer to
add specific functionality (such as full duplex transmit and receive).

Regards,
Philby




> 
> Regards,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> Steve Chen wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 07:45 -0600, Rondeau, Michael wrote:
> >   
> > > We have been using a bit-banging SPI driver for several years to write
> > > to some GPIO expander chips.  I now need to read some inputs from the
> > > GPIO expander.  The driver is not working in read mode and I am
> > > debugging it now.  But, I was wondering if TI has gotten a TI 6446
> > > hardware SPI driver working.
> > >     
> > 
> > SPI for DM6446 is not officially supported by TI because there is no SPI
> > device on DM644x EVM.  Therefore, can not be tested.  I would expect the
> > DM6446 SPI to work with some driver modifications.  Since you already
> > have the write working, you should be pretty close with read.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
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