Re: Sharing the same SPI between two devices.

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:15 AM Patryk <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi, I want to have two devices on the same SPI bus.
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> These devices are:
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> - SPI nor flash (QSPI compatible)
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> - my custom device (SPI compatible).
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> For SPI NOR flash I have the driver in the kernel, for my custom device I do not have such a driver.
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> My question is - how the access to this particular SPI peripheral can be serialized between these two drivers in order to prevent simultaneous access that would result in a mess on the SPI? Do I have to modify the existing driver for SPI NOR flash or not?
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> How about different configurations for these devices - as I mentioned one is QSPI compatible whereas the other one is SPI compatible. Can I reconfigure the SPI bus driver before each "transaction"?
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>
> Best regards
>
> Patryk
>
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To share the SPI bus between two devices just put them difirent chip
select pins.
Can you use regmap for what you trying to do?

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