A SPI slave may take time to react to a request. For SPI flash devices this time is defined as one bit time, or a whole byte for 'fast read' mode.
If the SPI slave is another CPU, then the time it takes to react may vary. It is convenient to allow the slave device to tag the start of the actual reply so that the host can determine when this 'preamble' finishes and the actual message starts.
Add a preamble flag to the available SPI flags. If supported by the driver then it will ignore any received bytes before the preamble on each transaction. This ensures that reliable communication with the slave is possible.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Rajeshwari Shinde rajeshwari.s@samsung.com --- Changes in V2: - None Changes in V3: - None. Changes in V4: - None. include/spi.h | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/spi.h b/include/spi.h index 3fe2e1e..1638b50 100644 --- a/include/spi.h +++ b/include/spi.h @@ -37,11 +37,16 @@ #define SPI_LSB_FIRST 0x08 /* per-word bits-on-wire */ #define SPI_3WIRE 0x10 /* SI/SO signals shared */ #define SPI_LOOP 0x20 /* loopback mode */ +#define SPI_SLAVE 0x40 /* slave mode */ +#define SPI_PREAMBLE 0x80 /* Skip preamble bytes */
/* SPI transfer flags */ #define SPI_XFER_BEGIN 0x01 /* Assert CS before transfer */ #define SPI_XFER_END 0x02 /* Deassert CS after transfer */
+/* Header byte that marks the start of the message */ +#define SPI_PREAMBLE_END_BYTE 0xec + /*----------------------------------------------------------------------- * Representation of a SPI slave, i.e. what we're communicating with. *