On 30 April 2015 at 18:30, <thomas.bet...@rohde-schwarz.com> wrote: > Hello Michal: > >> I tried to connect a SPI NOR flash to my sunxi board and due to the > current >> sunxi SPI driver limitations it does not work. >> >> The SPI driver returns an error when more than 64 bytes are >> transferred at once >> due to lack of DMA support. > > Wouldn't it be easier to fix the SPI driver to handle transfers larger > than 64 bytes, filling and draining the FIFO multiple times if neccessary? > (As far as I can tell, most SPI drivers do this.) >
Yes, the intent is to fix this by adding dma support to the driver, eventually. The patch might be still useful for other hardware with developing SPI support. Thanks Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
