renky Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 orange pi one armbian buster purged non free software I installed flashrom. In sudo armbian-config -> system settings -> toogle hardware I marked spi-spidev. Saved. Restarted computer. /dev/spi* displays nothing. How can I enable spi in armbian? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 On 1/30/2020 at 12:17 PM, renky said: How can I enable spi in armbian? you need the following in /boot/armbianEnv.txt and running a CURRENT or DEV kernel (not Legacy) : overlays=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=0 EDIT : Fix my own typo : should be "param_spidev_spi_bus=0" instead of "param_spinor_spi_bus=0" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renky Posted February 20, 2020 Author Share Posted February 20, 2020 Quote running a CURRENT I installed newest armbian buster having version 5.4.14-sunxi. Is that current or not legacy? Armbianenvtxt is verbosity=1 logo=disabled console=both disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3 rootdev=UUID= rootfstype=ext4 overlays=spi-spidev param_spinor_spi_bus=0 usbstoragequirks= It does not work. Command sudo ls -l /dev/spi* returns ls: cannot access '/dev/spi*': No such file or directory On raspberry pi you enable spi this way https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/spi/README.md Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 14 minutes ago, renky said: 5.4.14-sunxi. Is that current? Yes ! 14 minutes ago, renky said: It does not work. You need to debug more : - check that overlay is actually loaded during the u-boot phase. (Did you rebooted since the /boot/armbianEnv.txt changes ?) - do a "dmesg | grep -i spi" to figure out about any errors, (maybe pins are used elsewhere ?) 14 minutes ago, renky said: On raspberry pi you enable spi this way Forget about this way, it is not Armbian way ... EDIT: Oh ! I didn't look thoroughly : You wrote "param_spinor_spi_bus=0" instead of "param_spidev_spi_bus=0" because of my own typo done previously ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renky Posted February 22, 2020 Author Share Posted February 22, 2020 Thank you. After I corrected the code, it might work. Command sudo ls -l /dev/spi* returns crw------- 1 root root 153, 0 jan 30 /dev/spidev0.0 Are there commands such that you can verify if spi has set? mosi miso ceo_n sclk On a raspberry pi 0 command sudo ls -l /dev/spi* returns crw-rw----1 root spi 153, 0 jan 30 /dev/spidev0.0 crw-rw----1 root spi 153, 1 jan 30 /dev/spidev0.1 On orange pi one it says crw. On raspberry pi 0 it says crw-rw. A raspberry pi 0 can flash the flashchip of a thinkpad t400. Can the orange pi one do it, if the orange pi one's spi says crw and not crw-rw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 34 minutes ago, renky said: Are there commands such that you can verify if spi has set? What do you mean ? 34 minutes ago, renky said: On orange pi one it says crw. On raspberry pi 0 it says crw-rw. A raspberry pi 0 can flash the flashchip of a thinkpad t400. Can the orange pi one do it, if the orange pi one says crw and not crw-rw? As long as you are executing as "root", you don't need to have "crw-rw" flags ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renky Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 Quote What do you mean ? How you can test if spi will work. On libreboot's homepage this test command is displayed: ./flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=512 It should return Calibrating delay loop... OK. No EEPROM/flash device found. Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically. ./flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=512 does not work on the raspberry pi 0 and orange pi one. It returns No such file or directory flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=512 returns Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). No EEPROM/flash device found. Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically. on both the raspberry pi 0 and orange pi one. Since the raspberry pi 0 can flash the flashchip of a thinkpad t400 then maybe the orange pi one also can flash it. Because both return the same message from flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=512 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 31 minutes ago, renky said: How you can test if spi will work. The simpliest way is to test MOSI/MISO with a loopback wire between those two pins and then use "spidev_test" after having it compiled : https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/spi/spidev_test.c 37 minutes ago, renky said: No EEPROM/flash device found. Did you properly connected a SPINOR flash chip on the proper pins or you connected some other kind of devices ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renky Posted February 29, 2020 Author Share Posted February 29, 2020 Quote connected a SPINOR flash chip Nothing was connected. You are supposed to run command flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=512 with nothing connected. And if it returns Calibrating delay loop... OK. No EEPROM/flash device found. Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found automatically. then there is a chance that spi works on the computer. Like I wrote, on the raspberry pi 0 it returns Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). No EEPROM/flash device found Still the raspberry pi 0 was able to flash the flashchip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 3 hours ago, renky said: Nothing was connected. If nothing connected, it is pretty normal that "flashrom" gives an error since it doesn't find any answers to it JEDEC ID request ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbmckinley Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Martin is a genius. Is there ANYTHING he doesn't know about SBC's...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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