Spi not working!

[ralitra]

Okay, at this point I can say that I've tried pretty much everything. I've searched all over on the internet and I can't get the spi1 to work through the WiringOP libs on my OrangePi Zero!

Is there anyone out there who was able make the magic? Can you helpe me?

ps.: In the armbian version I am using, the spidev1.0 already exists, so I think the problem is not activating it.

Thanks in advance!
Greetings.

Rafael

[g2pmas]

I submitted a PR about that.

[GreenOceanCZ]

Hi i try
#gpio load spi
modprobe: FATAL: Module spi-sun7i not found.
gpio: Unable to load spi-sun7i

this can be repare in https://github.com/xpertsavenue/WiringOP-Zero/blob/master/gpio/gpio.c ("/dev/spidev0.1" ´=> "/dev/spidev1.0") + cant find eqvivalent modpro for this cpu(spi-sun8i)

[batmaca]

Hi folks,

You guys could solve the problem or still same?

I am about to crush this little toy. I have been searching more than 10 days but STILL "unable to open spidev1.0"

I have checked every line of this code manually to find something wrong but NEIN. If you solved the problem show some ways.

Thanks buddies.

[sanjuruk]

It is working

[pm-cz]

I had a problem when trying to use SPI part for communication with SpaceTeddy's CC1101, but only with this library on OPI Zero (after fixing the SPI speed), not the original zhaolei/WiringOP one on OPI1. So I dug into the differences and this patch is what fixed the library and made it working on OPI0 (I guess the memset part). I would issue a PR, but since they do not seem to be processed, I am including it here.

diff --git a/wiringPi/wiringPiSPI.c b/wiringPi/wiringPiSPI.c
index 4a48cd5..abde2aa 100644
--- a/wiringPi/wiringPiSPI.c
+++ b/wiringPi/wiringPiSPI.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <asm/ioctl.h>
 #include <linux/spi/spidev.h>
 
 #include "wiringPi.h"
@@ -40,9 +41,8 @@
 
 const static char       *spiDev0  = "/dev/spidev0.0" ;
 const static char       *spiDev1  = "/dev/spidev1.0" ;
-const static uint8_t     spiMode  = 0 ;
-const static uint8_t     spiBPW   = 8 ;
-const static uint16_t    spiDelay = 0 ;
+static const uint8_t     spiBPW   = 8 ;
+static const uint16_t    spiDelay = 0 ;
 
 static uint32_t    spiSpeeds [2] ;
 static int         spiFds [2] ;
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ int wiringPiSPIDataRW (int channel, unsigned char *data, int len)
 
   channel &= 1 ;
 
+// Mentioned in spidev.h but not used in the original kernel documentation
+//	test program )-:
+
+  memset (&spi, 0, sizeof (spi)) ;
+
   spi.tx_buf        = (unsigned long)data ;
   spi.rx_buf        = (unsigned long)data ;
   spi.len           = len ;
@@ -87,16 +92,17 @@ int wiringPiSPIDataRW (int channel, unsigned char *data, int len)
 
 
 /*
- * wiringPiSPISetup:
- *	Open the SPI device, and set it up, etc.
+ * wiringPiSPISetupMode:
+ *	Open the SPI device, and set it up, with the mode, etc.
  *********************************************************************************
  */
 
-int wiringPiSPISetup (int channel, int speed)
+int wiringPiSPISetupMode (int channel, int speed, int mode)
 {
   int fd ;
 
-  channel &= 1 ;
+  mode    &= 3 ;	// Mode is 0, 1, 2 or 3
+  channel &= 1 ;	// Channel is 0 or 1
 
   if ((fd = open (channel == 0 ? spiDev0 : spiDev1, O_RDWR)) < 0)
     return wiringPiFailure (WPI_ALMOST, "Unable to open SPI device: %s\n", strerror (errno)) ;
@@ -105,12 +111,10 @@ int wiringPiSPISetup (int channel, int speed)
   spiFds    [channel] = fd ;
 
 // Set SPI parameters.
-//	Why are we reading it afterwriting it? I've no idea, but for now I'm blindly
-//	copying example code I've seen online...
 
-  if (ioctl (fd, SPI_IOC_WR_MODE, &spiMode)         < 0)
+  if (ioctl (fd, SPI_IOC_WR_MODE, &mode)            < 0)
     return wiringPiFailure (WPI_ALMOST, "SPI Mode Change failure: %s\n", strerror (errno)) ;
-  
+
   if (ioctl (fd, SPI_IOC_WR_BITS_PER_WORD, &spiBPW) < 0)
     return wiringPiFailure (WPI_ALMOST, "SPI BPW Change failure: %s\n", strerror (errno)) ;
 
@@ -119,3 +123,15 @@ int wiringPiSPISetup (int channel, int speed)
 
   return fd ;
 }
+
+
+/*
+ * wiringPiSPISetup:
+ *	Open the SPI device, and set it up, etc. in the default MODE 0
+ *********************************************************************************
+ */
+
+int wiringPiSPISetup (int channel, int speed)
+{
+  return wiringPiSPISetupMode (channel, speed, 0) ;
+}
diff --git a/wiringPi/wiringPiSPI.h b/wiringPi/wiringPiSPI.h
index f53697d..48cb7be 100644
--- a/wiringPi/wiringPiSPI.h
+++ b/wiringPi/wiringPiSPI.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ extern "C" {
 
 int wiringPiSPIGetFd  (int channel) ;
 int wiringPiSPIDataRW (int channel, unsigned char *data, int len) ;
+int wiringPiSPISetupMode (int channel, int speed, int mode) ;
 int wiringPiSPISetup  (int channel, int speed) ;
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus

[nopnop2002]

I am using OrangePi ZERO Rev1.5(H2+) and Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepizero_buster_current_5.10.60.img.

$ uname -a
Linux orangepizero 5.10.60-sunxi #21.08.1 SMP Wed Aug 25 18:19:32 UTC 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux

SPI device is present.

$ ls /dev/spi*
/dev/spidev1.0

$ dmesg | grep spi
[    4.646244] spidev spi1.0: probing from DT

I applied the patch suggested by pm-cz.
But SPI still doesn't work.

Does anyone have a fork that works with SPI in this environment?