The atmel_spi driver does not initialize clock polarity correctly (except for at91rm9200 CS0 channel) in some case.
The atmel_spi driver uses gpio-controlled chipselect. OTOH spi clock signal is controlled by CSRn.CPOL bit, but this register controls clock signal correctly only in 'real transfer' duration. At the time of cs_activate() call, CSRn.CPOL will be initialized correctly, but the controller do not know which channel is to be used next, so clock signal will stay at the inactive state of last transfer. If clock polarity of new transfer and last transfer was differ, new transfer will start with wrong clock signal state. For example, if you started SPI MODE 2 or 3 transfer after SPI MODE 0 or 1 transfer, the clock signal state at the assertion of chipselect will be low. Of course this will violates SPI transfer. This patch is short term solution for this problem. It makes all CSRn.CPOL match for the transfer before activating chipselect. For longer term, the best fix might be to let NPCS0 stay selected permanently in MR and overwrite CSR0 with to the new slave's settings before asserting CS. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch is already in mm tree as atmel_spi-fix-clock-polarity.patch. I just rewrite description slightly and add my signed-off and acked-by from Haavard Skinnemoen. diff --git a/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c b/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c index 293b7ca..85687aa 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c @@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ static void cs_activate(struct atmel_spi *as, struct spi_device *spi) unsigned gpio = (unsigned) spi->controller_data; unsigned active = spi->mode & SPI_CS_HIGH; u32 mr; + int i; + u32 csr; + u32 cpol = (spi->mode & SPI_CPOL) ? SPI_BIT(CPOL) : 0; + + /* Make sure clock polarity is correct */ + for (i = 0; i < spi->master->num_chipselect; i++) { + csr = spi_readl(as, CSR0 + 4 * i); + if ((csr ^ cpol) & SPI_BIT(CPOL)) + spi_writel(as, CSR0 + 4 * i, csr ^ SPI_BIT(CPOL)); + } mr = spi_readl(as, MR); mr = SPI_BFINS(PCS, ~(1 << spi->chip_select), mr); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/