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-rw-r--r--Documentation/spi/butterfly23
-rw-r--r--drivers/spi/Kconfig10
-rw-r--r--drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c36
3 files changed, 34 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/butterfly b/Documentation/spi/butterfly
index a2e8c8d90e35..9927af7a629c 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/butterfly
+++ b/Documentation/spi/butterfly
@@ -12,13 +12,20 @@ You can make this adapter from an old printer cable and solder things
directly to the Butterfly. Or (if you have the parts and skills) you
can come up with something fancier, providing ciruit protection to the
Butterfly and the printer port, or with a better power supply than two
-signal pins from the printer port.
+signal pins from the printer port. Or for that matter, you can use
+similar cables to talk to many AVR boards, even a breadboard.
+
+This is more powerful than "ISP programming" cables since it lets kernel
+SPI protocol drivers interact with the AVR, and could even let the AVR
+issue interrupts to them. Later, your protocol driver should work
+easily with a "real SPI controller", instead of this bitbanger.
The first cable connections will hook Linux up to one SPI bus, with the
AVR and a DataFlash chip; and to the AVR reset line. This is all you
need to reflash the firmware, and the pins are the standard Atmel "ISP"
-connector pins (used also on non-Butterfly AVR boards).
+connector pins (used also on non-Butterfly AVR boards). On the parport
+side this is like "sp12" programming cables.
Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25)
------ --------- ---------------
@@ -40,10 +47,14 @@ by clearing PORTB.[0-3]); (b) configure the mtd_dataflash driver; and
SELECT = J400.PB0/nSS = pin 17/C3,nSELECT
GND = J400.GND = pin 24/GND
-The "USI" controller, using J405, can be used for a second SPI bus. That
-would let you talk to the AVR over SPI, running firmware that makes it act
-as an SPI slave, while letting either Linux or the AVR use the DataFlash.
-There are plenty of spare parport pins to wire this one up, such as:
+Or you could flash firmware making the AVR into an SPI slave (keeping the
+DataFlash in reset) and tweak the spi_butterfly driver to make it bind to
+the driver for your custom SPI-based protocol.
+
+The "USI" controller, using J405, can also be used for a second SPI bus.
+That would let you talk to the AVR using custom SPI-with-USI firmware,
+while letting either Linux or the AVR use the DataFlash. There are plenty
+of spare parport pins to wire this one up, such as:
Signal Butterfly Parport (DB-25)
------ --------- ---------------
diff --git a/drivers/spi/Kconfig b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
index b77dbd63e596..7a75faeb0526 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
@@ -75,16 +75,6 @@ config SPI_BUTTERFLY
inexpensive battery powered microcontroller evaluation board.
This same cable can be used to flash new firmware.
-config SPI_BUTTERFLY
- tristate "Parallel port adapter for AVR Butterfly (DEVELOPMENT)"
- depends on SPI_MASTER && PARPORT && EXPERIMENTAL
- select SPI_BITBANG
- help
- This uses a custom parallel port cable to connect to an AVR
- Butterfly <http://www.atmel.com/products/avr/butterfly>, an
- inexpensive battery powered microcontroller evaluation board.
- This same cable can be used to flash new firmware.
-
#
# Add new SPI master controllers in alphabetical order above this line
#
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c b/drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c
index 79a3c59615ab..ff9e5faa4dc9 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c
@@ -163,21 +163,20 @@ static void butterfly_chipselect(struct spi_device *spi, int value)
struct butterfly *pp = spidev_to_pp(spi);
/* set default clock polarity */
- if (value)
+ if (value != BITBANG_CS_INACTIVE)
setsck(spi, spi->mode & SPI_CPOL);
/* no chipselect on this USI link config */
if (is_usidev(spi))
return;
- /* here, value == "activate or not" */
-
- /* most PARPORT_CONTROL_* bits are negated */
+ /* here, value == "activate or not";
+ * most PARPORT_CONTROL_* bits are negated, so we must
+ * morph it to value == "bit value to write in control register"
+ */
if (spi_cs_bit == PARPORT_CONTROL_INIT)
value = !value;
- /* here, value == "bit value to write in control register" */
-
parport_frob_control(pp->port, spi_cs_bit, value ? spi_cs_bit : 0);
}
@@ -202,7 +201,9 @@ butterfly_txrx_word_mode0(struct spi_device *spi,
/* override default partitioning with cmdlinepart */
static struct mtd_partition partitions[] = { {
- /* JFFS2 wants partitions of 4*N blocks for this device ... */
+ /* JFFS2 wants partitions of 4*N blocks for this device,
+ * so sectors 0 and 1 can't be partitions by themselves.
+ */
/* sector 0 = 8 pages * 264 bytes/page (1 block)
* sector 1 = 248 pages * 264 bytes/page
@@ -316,8 +317,9 @@ static void butterfly_attach(struct parport *p)
if (status < 0)
goto clean2;
- /* Bus 1 lets us talk to at45db041b (firmware disables AVR)
- * or AVR (firmware resets at45, acts as spi slave)
+ /* Bus 1 lets us talk to at45db041b (firmware disables AVR SPI), AVR
+ * (firmware resets at45, acts as spi slave) or neither (we ignore
+ * both, AVR uses AT45). Here we expect firmware for the first option.
*/
pp->info[0].max_speed_hz = 15 * 1000 * 1000;
strcpy(pp->info[0].modalias, "mtd_dataflash");
@@ -330,7 +332,9 @@ static void butterfly_attach(struct parport *p)
pp->dataflash->dev.bus_id);
#ifdef HAVE_USI
- /* even more custom AVR firmware */
+ /* Bus 2 is only for talking to the AVR, and it can work no
+ * matter who masters bus 1; needs appropriate AVR firmware.
+ */
pp->info[1].max_speed_hz = 10 /* ?? */ * 1000 * 1000;
strcpy(pp->info[1].modalias, "butterfly");
// pp->info[1].platform_data = ... TBD ... ;
@@ -378,13 +382,8 @@ static void butterfly_detach(struct parport *p)
pp = butterfly;
butterfly = NULL;
-#ifdef HAVE_USI
- spi_unregister_device(pp->butterfly);
- pp->butterfly = NULL;
-#endif
- spi_unregister_device(pp->dataflash);
- pp->dataflash = NULL;
-
+ /* stop() unregisters child devices too */
+ pdev = to_platform_device(pp->bitbang.master->cdev.dev);
status = spi_bitbang_stop(&pp->bitbang);
/* turn off VCC */
@@ -394,8 +393,6 @@ static void butterfly_detach(struct parport *p)
parport_release(pp->pd);
parport_unregister_device(pp->pd);
- pdev = to_platform_device(pp->bitbang.master->cdev.dev);
-
(void) spi_master_put(pp->bitbang.master);
platform_device_unregister(pdev);
@@ -420,4 +417,5 @@ static void __exit butterfly_exit(void)
}
module_exit(butterfly_exit);
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Parport Adapter driver for AVR Butterfly");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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