bugAVR Downloader/UploaDEr - Bugs: bug #46587, patch: transparent SPI (relay) mode

 
 

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bug #46587: patch: transparent SPI (relay) mode

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 02 Dec 2015 07:30:22 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Tibor 'Igor2' Palinkas
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Open
Release:  None Programmer hardware: 
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Wed 02 Dec 2015 07:30:22 AM UTC, original submission:  

(This is not a bug report but a patch for a new feature. This was the
only tracker I could add it to without registration.)

In my next open source hardware project I program an attiny to be an SPI
slave. I figured the easiest way to test the firmware would be to use my
parallel port avr programmer device to emulate an SPI bus master. For this
I need avrdude to be able to:

- avoid resetting the target device
- omit any SPI commands related to AVR programming during initialization
- initiate arbitrary long SPI transactions

The patch attached implements this in the following steps.

1. a new device flag AVRPART_NO_RESET can disable the reset signal
normally generated for no-tpi devices

2. a new device configuration called "spi" or "transparent_spi" defines
a device that omits the reset and all SPI communication during initialization

3. a new command line switch -S puts avrdude in transparent SPI mode

4. in transparent SPI mode binary data is relayed between stdio and SPI until
EOF on stdin.

I've tested it with a parallel port programmer and a scope, with
MISO-MOSI looped back with a wire, left unconnected or an attiny2313
connected. Both the transparent SPI mode and programming the attiny worked.
I have no idea if it works with non-bitbang programmers.

Command line for the transparent SPI mode: avrdude -c <whatever> -p spi -S

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Attached Files
file #35611:  SPI.patch added by None (9KiB - text/x-diff - svn diff in trunk/avrdude)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2015-12-02 None Attached File- Added SPI.patch, #35611

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