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Daniel

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Hello,

 

I want to use SocketCan on the Banana Pi / Allwinner A20 with the internal CAN interface.

I have tested my hardware in the past using can4linux and also have some experience with Socketcan and other interfaces.

 

Configuarion: Armbian

root@bananapi:/# uname -r
4.4.1-sunxi
 

loaded the can driver with "modprobe sun4i_can" results in "lsmod":

Module                  Size  Used by
sun4i_can               5810  0
can_dev                 8307  1 sun4i_can
 

And dmesg states:

[ 2632.582992] CAN device driver interface
 

But I do not get the can0 device up:

root@bananapi:~# ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 500000
Cannot find device "can0"
 

There seems to be no can device detected by the sun4i_can:

root@bananapi:~# cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo:    4307      60    0    0    0     0          0         0     4307      60    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0:  929191   13067    0    0    0     0          0         0   871467    4282    0    0    0     0       0          0
 bond0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
 

 

Did someone else try canbus and got it running?

 

Thanks,

 

Daniel

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Hi Daniel,

 

I'm using CAN-Bus successfully on Bpi. You need some simple patches for the DT:

 

 

 

./armbian/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-next % cat 800-dt-sun7i-add-can.patch

--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi 2015-09-28 11:34:05.383525775 +0200

+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20.dtsi 2015-09-28 11:58:11.720217304 +0200

@@ -890,6 +890,13 @@

  allwinner,pull = <SUN4I_PINCTRL_NO_PULL>;

  };

 

+ can0_pins_a: can0@0 {

+ allwinner,pins = "PH20","PH21";

+ allwinner,function = "can";

+ allwinner,drive = <SUN4I_PINCTRL_10_MA>;

+ allwinner,pull = <SUN4I_PINCTRL_NO_PULL>;

+ };

+

  i2c0_pins_a: i2c0@0 {

  allwinner,pins = "PB0", "PB1";

  allwinner,function = "i2c0";

@@ -1334,6 +1341,16 @@

  #size-cells = <0>;

  };

 

+ can0: can@01c2bc00 {

+ compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10-can";

+ reg = <0x01c2bc00 0x400>;

+ interrupts = <GIC_SPI 26 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;

+ clocks = <&apb1_gates 4>;

+ status = "disabled";

+ #address-cells = <1>;

+ #size-cells = <0>;

+ };

+

  i2c4: i2c@01c2c000 {

  compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-i2c", "allwinner,sun4i-a10-i2c";

  reg = <0x01c2c000 0x400>;

 

./armbian/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-next % cat bananapix-add_can.patch

--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts 2016-02-16 13:04:24.322060998 +0100

+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts 2016-02-16 13:48:38.457387549 +0100

@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@

  status = "okay";

 };

 

+&can0 {

+ pinctrl-names = "default";

+ pinctrl-0 = <&can0_pins_a>;

+ status = "okay";

+};

+

 &codec {

  status = "okay";

 };

 

 

Compile your armbian and everything runs fine ;-)

 

 

Regards

 

Gerd

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Daniel, did you ever manage to get can bus working?

 

I tried with my banana pi, building my own armbian 5.05 (trusty) image with the patches provided above, but I have the same issue; "Cannot find device "can0"". 

I can however see the device in the device tree: /proc/device-tree/soc@01c00000/can@01c2bc00.

 

For anyone else looking at this, I was able to find my issue; with the consolidation of the BananaPi and the BPI-Pro in the armbian build tools, you need to patch the bananapipro device tree, not just the plain bpi device tree. This patch is what I used to patch the device tree in the 4.4 kernel

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Hello Eric,

 

I tested my hardware using Can4Linux, which you can get easily running on the banana pi so I know, everything is working well.

Just reading your replay and the one of Gerd i'm trying to compile the latest 4.4.x kernel.

Gerd, your patches seem to include all needed information, but cannot be directly applied to the latest kernel any more.

Only using the one patch from Eric is missing some information, but when I download all 3 patches from that site: "https://github.com/GBert/sunxi-can-driver",to userpatches/kernel/sunxi-next the kernel compiles.

 

I hope to find some time within the next week to install the kernel and test can. I will post an update.

 

Daniel

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Hi Franz,

Hello,

I want to use socketcan with kernel 4.9.12. Is it still necessary to compile kernel with patches?

Directories in  https://github.com/GBert/sunxi-can-driverare marked as obsolete. And patches are even older.

I tried to use fex, but was not successful.

Command: /sbin/ifconfig -1 does not show a can device.

Connecting a PEAK USB-CAN dongle displays CAN0.

I've marked the Git as obsolete because the driver is in the kernel. You may need to change the device tree (DT).

That's are the patches (80.-*) for:

root@ubuntu ~/lib (git)-[master] # find ./ -name '80[12]*'
./patch/kernel/sunxi-next/801-dt-sun7i-add-can-bananapi.patch
./patch/kernel/sunxi-next/802-dt-sun7i-add-can-bananapro.patch
./patch/kernel/sunxi-dev/801-dt-sun7i-add-can-bananapi.patch
./patch/kernel/sunxi-dev/802-dt-sun7i-add-can-bananapro.patch
root@ubuntu ~/lib (git)-[master] # cat ./patch/kernel/sunxi-next/802-dt-sun7i-add-can-bananapro.patch                                                                      
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-bananapro.dts    2016-01-11 00:01:32.000000000 +0100
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-bananapro.dts    2016-02-03 20:12:28.285742989 +0100
@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@
     status = "okay";
 };

+&can0 {
+    pinctrl-names = "default";
+    pinctrl-0 = <&can0_pins_a>;
+    status = "okay";
+};
+
 &ehci0 {
     status = "okay";
 };
root@ubuntu ~/lib (git)-[master] # cat ./patch/kernel/sunxi-next/801-dt-sun7i-add-can-bananapi.patch
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts    2016-01-11 00:01:32.000000000 +0100
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts    2016-02-03 20:07:27.074726689 +0100
@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@
     status = "okay";
 };

+&can0 {
+    pinctrl-names = "default";
+    pinctrl-0 = <&can0_pins_a>;
+    status = "okay";
+};
+
 &cpu0 {
     cpu-supply = <&reg_dcdc2>;
     operating-points = <

FEX is for 3.x kernels and not applicable here.

 

Try to load the kernel model 'modprobe sun4i_can'.

There should a dmesg entry like:

[   10.063815] sun4i_can 1c2bc00.can: device registered (base=f1428c00, irq=48)

 

Otherwise look at the DT (again).

 

Regards

 

Gerd

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Hi,

I had the same problem still with ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.18-sunxi. But I didn't want to compile the kernel anew.

So I did 

dtc -I dtb -O dts -o sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts sun7i-a20-bananapi.dtb

with a copy of the dtb file from "/boot/dtb-4.14.18-sunxi" (maybe with sudo).

Then edited the dts like this patch

--- sun7i-a20-bananapi.dts	2018-03-05 18:42:30.608935387 +0000
+++ sun7i-a20-bananapi_can.dts	2018-03-05 18:28:21.085552756 +0000
@@ -1099,12 +1099,12 @@
 			linux,phandle = <0x2b>;
 			phandle = <0x2b>;
 
-			can0@0 {
+			can0_pins_a: can0@0 {
 				pins = "PH20", "PH21";
 				function = "can";
 				linux,phandle = <0x74>;
 				phandle = <0x74>;
-			};
+              		};
 
 			clk_out_a@0 {
 				pins = "PI12";
@@ -1847,10 +1847,12 @@
 			reg = <0x1c2bc00 0x400>;
 			interrupts = <0x0 0x1a 0x4>;
 			clocks = <0x43 0x4>;
-			status = "disabled";
 			linux,phandle = <0xb5>;
 			phandle = <0xb5>;
-		};
+                        status = "okay";
+                        pinctrl-names = "default";
+                        pinctrl-0 = <&can0_pins_a>;
+ 		};
 
 		i2c@01c2c000 {
 			compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-i2c", "allwinner,sun4i-a10-i2c";

and recompiled with 

dtc -I dts -O dtb -o sun7i-a20-bananapi_can.dtb sun7i-a20-bananapi_can.dts

copied it back to "/boot/dtb-4.14.18-sunxi", overwriting the original (and making a copy of the original of course). And voila: I have CAN bus working.

But beware: the dtc on my bananapi had a lot of error messages and the changed dtb didn't boot. So I had to do the whole procedure on my main machine.

 

Hope this helps anyone to a painless CAN bus activation. And thanks to the previous posters to get me on the right track.

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