Petalinux no spidev in /dev

[kmbm]

Hi, 

I'm writing here because I have a problem with my spi. I'm working on Zybo board. I'd like to use SPI1 on my PMOD JF (MIO10...15). Unfortunatelly I don't have spidev enable in /dev. Here is my device tree structure for spi.

&spi1 {
	is-decoded-cs = <0>;
	num-cs = <1>;
	status = "okay";
        spidev@0x0{
                 compatible = "spidev";
                 spi-max-frequency = <20000000>;
                 reg = <0>;
        };
};

 What can be wrong? 

[shabbirk]

Hi

First off, Are you able to see spidev entry in sysfs? something like this:

root@linspace:~# cat /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi1.0/

You should make changes to the dts files:

In zynq-7000.dtsi, made status as  “okay” of spi1. I think its done in your case looks like.

NowiIn system-conf.dtsi, add spi1 under aliases as shown in the very last image below:

In system-top.dtsi, add similar to users spi devices

After making the above changes in dts files rebuilt the kernel images and booted it.

[kmbm]

Thanks for your reply. In cat /sys/bus/spi/devices I have both spi 0 and 1. I do everything what you wrote but it still doesn't work. The only difference which I have is that I put alias into the system-top.dts. System-conf.dts is automatically generated file and i 've never edit it before and always aliases included in system-top.dts worked.

[shabbirk]

Hi

Please check whether CONFIG_SPIDEV in linux kernel has been enabled?

Best Regards

Shabbir

[kmbm]

That was a hint. Thanks a lot. I had enabled CONFG_SPI but not CONFiG_SPIDEV. 

I have one more question. I havo also 3 gpio pins. I can't find theirs indexes in sys/class/gpio when I want to export it. Is there any quick way to find the first index of gpio? I remember that what i do sth similar in the past I had the same problem and the idxs starts from probably 180 which was a bit strange

[aynilian]

Which directory and file did you find "CONFiG_SPIDEV" I'm using Petalinux 2017.3?

[aynilian]

Which directory and file is "CONFiG_SPIDEV", I'm using petalinux 2017.3?

[eyeray]

Hallo aynilian,

you can find it using command

petalinux-config -c kernel  and go to Device Drivers > SPI support>User mode SPI device driver support 

active it by typing 'y'

i hope this will answer your question.