Re: Subject: [PATCH v6] spi: Add PPC4xx SPI driver

2009-06-25 Thread Steven A. Falco
Stefan suggested that I try to address the comments against the PPC4xx SPI driver, so here goes... A post of version 7 of the driver will follow this email, but I thought it might make it easier on everyone to inline my comments here. Hence, this brief, introductory "top post". > On Thursday 08

Re: general SPI question (WAS: [PATCH v6] spi: Add PPC4xx SPI driver)

2009-04-23 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 23 April 2009, Arnav Das wrote: > i am a newbie Lesson #1: make sure your Subject: lines match the message topic (I did a partial repair) and don't post to the wrong list (e.g. PPC lists for OMAP questions). > and am doing a project on beagle board(running > omap3530). i am interfa

Re: [spi-devel-general] [PATCH v6] spi: Add PPC4xx SPI driver

2009-04-23 Thread Arnav Das
Hi i am a newbie and am doing a project on beagle board(running omap3530). i am interfacing an adc(ads7886) to the beagleboard via spi. need to know how the spi works and how a module can access the spi registers of the omap. if someones already made an adc driver can they mail me? thanks arnav

Re: [PATCH v6] spi: Add PPC4xx SPI driver

2009-04-22 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 08 January 2009, Stefan Roese wrote: > This adds a SPI driver for the SPI controller found in the IBM/AMCC > 4xx PowerPC's. > +/* > + * The PPC4xx SPI controller has no FIFO so each sent/received byte will > + * generate an interrupt to the CPU. This can cause high CPU utilization. >

Re: [PATCH v6] spi: Add PPC4xx SPI driver

2009-04-22 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Stefan Roese wrote: > On Wednesday 22 April 2009, David Brownell wrote: > > On Thursday 08 January 2009, Stefan Roese wrote: > > > This adds a SPI driver for the SPI controller found in the IBM/AMCC > > > 4xx PowerPC's. > > > > Note that given some patches now in the mm

Re: [PATCH v6] spi: Add PPC4xx SPI driver

2009-04-22 Thread Stefan Roese
On Wednesday 22 April 2009, David Brownell wrote: > On Thursday 08 January 2009, Stefan Roese wrote: > > This adds a SPI driver for the SPI controller found in the IBM/AMCC > > 4xx PowerPC's. > > Note that given some patches now in the mm tree, this needs > something like the appended fixup. Some

Re: [PATCH v6] spi: Add PPC4xx SPI driver

2009-04-21 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 08 January 2009, Stefan Roese wrote: > This adds a SPI driver for the SPI controller found in the IBM/AMCC > 4xx PowerPC's. Note that given some patches now in the mm tree, this needs something like the appended fixup. Some common code has now moved into the spi core. - Dave --- d

[PATCH v6] spi: Add PPC4xx SPI driver

2009-01-08 Thread Stefan Roese
This adds a SPI driver for the SPI controller found in the IBM/AMCC 4xx PowerPC's. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Ocker Acked-by: Josh Boyer --- Changes in v6: - Moved comment about high interrupt load to top of file and extended it by explaining that the 4xx SPI controll