On Saturday 21 October 2017 14:39:33 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > to just over 2083 messages per second. Since each message is 16 > > bytes or 128 bits that's an average of 266Kbps. Easily handled by 5 > > Mbps SPI. > > > > I have no idea what is available for PC level hardware to do SPI > > communications though nor if that rate is fast enough for what you > > want to do. > > SPI is available in almost all new micro controllers and it's fast so > this is the reason I stubbornly tried to use it but finally almost > have give up. > We have an spi driver for the pi's, but someone is going to need to fix it so it can run on most of the armv7/8's, or better yet, the arm64 which is what the rock64 is built out of. I don't know about the SPI bus on the rock64, but the rest of the rock64 plumb blows the doors off a pi-3b. The rock64 doesn't have the usb-2 pinhole all the data i/o except gpio, has to negotiate a turn to get in or out. It is in the apt pulls however, and works well, but only on the pi's.
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