On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 02:20:38PM +0200, Bertho Stultiens wrote:
> I suddenly realized that the SPI peripheral is configured and accessed
> in userspace. That will fail miserably if not extremely careful,
> especially on SMP.
> 
> However, there already is a solution for this! The linux kernel has a
> SPI driver, which is quite good (used it before). It solves all the
> userspace problems and, to say the least, some very clever people have
> had a crack at this problem before.
[snip]

We already have a driver for hostmot2 that uses /dev/spidev*,
hm2_spi.  hm2_rpspi exists because its contributor stated that on
their system, hm2_spi did not perform adequately.

Jeff

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