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But if AliOS is really a complete Embedded Operating System ... Why does IoT SDK still need FreeRTOS? 🤔

github.com/alibaba/AliOS-Thing

Another trap! "vfs_spi_init_fullname" doesn't return the SPI Device ... It passes the SPI Device to AliOS! Let's create our own function to init the SPI Port without AliOS 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

"hal_spi_dma_trans" hangs while doing SPI DMA transfer because it's waiting for a FreeRTOS Event Group ... Which is supposed to be signalled by the DMA Interrupt Handler. Let's comment out the waiting and see what happens...

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

Commented out the waiting for SPI DMA ... Yep no more hanging ... But no SPI Data received. Interrupt Counters show that DMA Interrupts weren't triggered.

The plot thickens ... Just like my chicken soup 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

SPI DMA uses a Linked List of DMA requests ... Let's dump the DMA Linked List and verify the SPI Transmit and Receive requests

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

Aha SPI DMA is now Transmitting AND Receiving! The SPI Mode was incorrect ... Got confused between the AliOS docs and the BL602 implementation 🙁

Received SPI Data is garbage though 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

Logic Analyser captures SPI Data between and ... So cool! 🤩 Now to capture + BME280 and compare

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@ThePine64 connected to BME280 and LA2016 Logic Analyser ... Let's sniff the SPI Bus and find out what's wrong!

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Let's try 2 SPI Transfers instead of 1 ... First SPI Transfer transmits Register ID ... Second SPI Transfer receives the result from BME280

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LA2016 Logic Analyser comes in this beautiful inspirational box ... "Embedded Development Kit: Innovative concept, win-win cooperation"

Ugh is disrupting the two SPI Transfers ... By setting the Chip Enable Pin high ... Let's control Chip Enable Pin ourselves with GPIO

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

Thankfully SPI HAL lets us use GPIO to control the Chip Select Pin ... But we have already configured the pin for SPI Function ... Will this conflict with the GPIO Function? 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

Nope HAL can't control Chip Select Pin by ... Because it has already configured the pin for SPI Port earlier ... Let's control the pin ourselves 👋

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

Why does BME280 return different results ... For Bus Pirate vs ? 🤔

... Now writing about the 4 fixes I made ... 1️⃣ SPI Data Pins are flipped 2️⃣ SPI Phase should be 1 (though it behaves like 0) 3️⃣ Doing SPI Chip Select ourselves 4️⃣ Pin 0 switches on WiFi LED. Thanks for bearing with this long thread on @PINE64 🙏

lupyuen.github.io/articles/spi

@lupyuen MISO MOSI behavior is defined by the clock polarity and phase parameters. You probably have them set differently in both cases.

analog.com/media/en/analog-dia

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