Dear List:

Hello.

I am in the middle of cooking up a V3s experiment board. For that board I want 
to allow the board to boot even without a microSD card installed. SD0 is the 
microSD slot, SD1 is being used to interface a SDIO Wi-Fi module, and only the 
SD2/SPI0 port is open.

I know that I can just put an eMMC chip on SD2, but that seemed wasteful to me 
since that interface is limited to only 1-bit operation (while on my other 
board I has 8-bit eMMC on A13’s 8-bit SD2, making full use of it.) A cheaper 
alternative is using a 64MiB SPI NOR Flash as the onboard storage holding the 
complete OS and application image in it, but that would require u-boot support 
for SPI boot.

How is the status of SPI in u-boot?

Sincerely,
Max

p.s. Is it a good idea to share a single interrupt line for multiple devices, 
or should I use something like a PCF8574 on I2C bus as a “interrupt controller” 
of sorts? I ran out of interrupt lines since my board only ever had one to 
begin with, and from the mainline driver code that I2C I/O expander can 
function as a GPIO chip with an interrupt controller.

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