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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-09-18 01:22:26 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-09-18 01:22:26 +0200 |
commit | 7c672abc120a55f678e5571ae2ee93f06ca4d7f9 (patch) | |
tree | 7beebc09f9626ca8d5f7df4dded0a553de479323 /Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp.rst | |
parent | Merge branch 'for-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/denni... (diff) | |
parent | Documentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible builds (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'docs-5.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's a somewhat calmer cycle for docs this time, as the churn of the
mass RST conversion is happily mostly behind us.
- A new document on reproducible builds.
- We finally got around to zapping the documentation for hardware
support that was removed in 2004; one doesn't want to rush these
things.
- The usual assortment of fixes, typo corrections, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (67 commits)
Documentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible builds
docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]
Documentation: Add "earlycon=sbi" to the admin guide
doc:lock: remove reference to clever use of read-write lock
devices.txt: improve entry for comedi (char major 98)
docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver
doc: arm64: fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region
Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B'
mailmap: Update email address for Quentin Perret
docs: ftrace: clarify when tracing is disabled by the trace file
docs: process: fix broken link
Documentation/arm/samsung-s3c24xx: Remove stray U+FEFF character to fix title
Documentation/arm/sa1100/assabet: Fix 'make assabet_defconfig' command
Documentation/arm/sa1100: Remove some obsolete documentation
docs/zh_CN: update Chinese howto.rst for latexdocs making
Documentation: virt: Fix broken reference to virt tree's index
docs: Fix typo on pull requests guide
kernel-doc: Allow anonymous enum
Documentation: sphinx: Don't parse socket() as identifier reference
Documentation: sphinx: Add missing comma to list of strings
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diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp.rst b/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..07631aef4343 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp.rst @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +============================================== +spi_lm70llp : LM70-LLP parport-to-SPI adapter +============================================== + +Supported board/chip: + + * National Semiconductor LM70 LLP evaluation board + + Datasheet: http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LM70.html + +Author: + Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com> + +Description +----------- +This driver provides glue code connecting a National Semiconductor LM70 LLP +temperature sensor evaluation board to the kernel's SPI core subsystem. + +This is a SPI master controller driver. It can be used in conjunction with +(layered under) the LM70 logical driver (a "SPI protocol driver"). +In effect, this driver turns the parallel port interface on the eval board +into a SPI bus with a single device, which will be driven by the generic +LM70 driver (drivers/hwmon/lm70.c). + + +Hardware Interfacing +-------------------- +The schematic for this particular board (the LM70EVAL-LLP) is +available (on page 4) here: + + http://www.national.com/appinfo/tempsensors/files/LM70LLPEVALmanual.pdf + +The hardware interfacing on the LM70 LLP eval board is as follows: + + ======== == ========= ========== + Parallel LM70 LLP + Port . Direction JP2 Header + ======== == ========= ========== + D0 2 - - + D1 3 --> V+ 5 + D2 4 --> V+ 5 + D3 5 --> V+ 5 + D4 6 --> V+ 5 + D5 7 --> nCS 8 + D6 8 --> SCLK 3 + D7 9 --> SI/O 5 + GND 25 - GND 7 + Select 13 <-- SI/O 1 + ======== == ========= ========== + +Note that since the LM70 uses a "3-wire" variant of SPI, the SI/SO pin +is connected to both pin D7 (as Master Out) and Select (as Master In) +using an arrangement that lets either the parport or the LM70 pull the +pin low. This can't be shared with true SPI devices, but other 3-wire +devices might share the same SI/SO pin. + +The bitbanger routine in this driver (lm70_txrx) is called back from +the bound "hwmon/lm70" protocol driver through its sysfs hook, using a +spi_write_then_read() call. It performs Mode 0 (SPI/Microwire) bitbanging. +The lm70 driver then inteprets the resulting digital temperature value +and exports it through sysfs. + +A "gotcha": National Semiconductor's LM70 LLP eval board circuit schematic +shows that the SI/O line from the LM70 chip is connected to the base of a +transistor Q1 (and also a pullup, and a zener diode to D7); while the +collector is tied to VCC. + +Interpreting this circuit, when the LM70 SI/O line is High (or tristate +and not grounded by the host via D7), the transistor conducts and switches +the collector to zero, which is reflected on pin 13 of the DB25 parport +connector. When SI/O is Low (driven by the LM70 or the host) on the other +hand, the transistor is cut off and the voltage tied to it's collector is +reflected on pin 13 as a High level. + +So: the getmiso inline routine in this driver takes this fact into account, +inverting the value read at pin 13. + + +Thanks to +--------- + +- David Brownell for mentoring the SPI-side driver development. +- Dr.Craig Hollabaugh for the (early) "manual" bitbanging driver version. +- Nadir Billimoria for help interpreting the circuit schematic. |