2010-06-07 12:00:43 spi_async() Question

David Kasper (UNITED STATES)

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Does spi_async() perform transactions using DMA or PIO (or is this configurable via the board configuration)? If DMA then should I invalidate the cache addresses range supporting the receive data buffer before processing the data. This is supporting a touchscreen implementation similar to the AD7877 in which an interrupt may occur in the middle of an asynchronous SPI transaction.

Thanks,

David Kasper

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2010-06-07 12:09:25 Re: spi_async() Question

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

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the documentation explains that DMA vs PIO is handled by your board resources:

docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=spi

it also explains that all SPI buffers are DMA safe which means no SPI driver should be dealing with cache issues (wrt the SPI transfers):

linux-2.6.x/Documentation/spi/spi-summary

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2010-06-07 16:07:01 Re: spi_async() Question