Hello,
I want to use the A64-OLinuXino-1Ge16GW on a project where I need a lot of UART.
UART0 is used for debug purposes, UART2 and 3 are available on external connectors.
(by the way, I have an issue with UART3 not working : https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=7671.msg29065#msg29065)
I want to add more UART in the future. I plan to use a NXP SC16IS762 dual UART with the SPI interface on UEXT. A kernel driver is available, which is nice. Nevertheless, I can't enable SPI0 on UEXT.
I have tried to enable spi-spidev overlay to make some tests, with armbian-config (Armbian 20.05.2 Buster, kernel 5.4.43-sunxi64).
After reboot, there is no
/dev/spidev*
I also tried spi-add-cs1 overlay with the same result.
I don't have any SPI Flash on the board.
Thanks
Looking at the link of the UART port problem it seems you are using Armbian image, right?
Try the Olimage and try the "olinuxino-overlay" script. You can get it from here:
http://images.olimex.com/release/a64/
If you wonder which release to get, get the bionic base 7z archive.
You can further inspect the scripts we use here:
https://github.com/OLIMEX/olinuxino-overlays/tree/upstream/sun50i-a64
Hello Lub,
I got /dev/spidev0.0 appears with the Olimage and proper overlay, which is nice.
I will dive further to make it work as wanted.
Thank you.