SPI doesn’t work in NVIDIA Jetson Nano Development Kit A02

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to enable SPI1 in my Jetson Nano Development Kit A02 (with SD Card) and SPI doesn’t work:

  • enable SPI 1 and SPI 2 through jetson-io
  • enable the spidev through modprobe
  • run the spidev-test in a loopback (MOSI connected to MISO) spi1_dout ( 19) ↔ spi1_din ( 21)
    Am I doing something wrong? Could you please clarify what the problem is?

cat /etc/nv_tegra_release

R32 (release), REVISION: 7.5, GCID: 36557527, BOARD: t210ref, EABI: aarch64, DATE: Tue Jun 11 23:12:44 UTC 2024

cat /proc/device-tree/model

NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit

dmesg | grep -i kernel

[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: tegraid=21.1.2.0.0 ddr_die=4096M@2048M section=512M memtype=0 vpr_resize usb_port_owner_info=0 lane_owner_info=0 emc_max_dvfs=0 touch_id=0@63 video=tegrafb no_console_suspend=1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 debug_uartport=lsport,4 earlyprintk=uart8250-32bit,0x70006000 maxcpus=4 usbcore.old_scheme_first=1 lp0_vec=0x1000@0xff780000 core_edp_mv=1075 core_edp_ma=4000 gpt earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x70006000 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 fbcon=map:0 net.ifnames=0 quiet root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 fbcon=map:0 net.ifnames=0
[ 0.000000] Memory: 3568296K/4159488K available (15486K kernel code, 2982K rwdata, 6716K rodata, 8640K init, 614K bss, 116056K reserved, 475136K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.001693] kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled
[ 0.219883] DTS File Name: /dvs/git/dirty/git-master_linux/kernel/kernel-4.9/arch/arm64/boot/dts/…/…/…/…/…/…/hardware/nvidia/platform/t210/porg/kernel-dts/tegra210-p3448-0000-p3449-0000-a02.dts
[ 0.333317] alternatives: patching kernel code
[ 0.424270] DTS File Name: /dvs/git/dirty/git-master_linux/kernel/kernel-4.9/arch/arm64/boot/dts/…/…/…/…/…/…/hardware/nvidia/platform/t210/porg/kernel-dts/tegra210-p3448-0000-p3449-0000-a02.dts

sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tegra_gpio

Name:Bank:Port CNF OE OUT IN INT_STA INT_ENB INT_LVL
A: 0:0 64 40 40 04 00 00 000000
B: 0:1 f0 00 00 00 00 00 000000
C: 0:2 1f 00 00 18 00 00 000000
D: 0:3 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
E: 1:0 40 00 00 00 00 00 000000
F: 1:1 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
G: 1:2 0c 00 00 00 00 00 000000
H: 1:3 fd 99 00 60 00 00 000000
I: 2:0 07 05 00 02 00 00 000000
J: 2:1 f0 00 00 00 00 00 000000
K: 2:2 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
L: 2:3 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
M: 3:0 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
N: 3:1 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
O: 3:2 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
P: 3:3 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
Q: 4:0 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
R: 4:1 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
S: 4:2 a0 80 00 00 00 00 000000
T: 4:3 01 01 00 00 00 00 000000
U: 5:0 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
V: 5:1 01 00 00 00 00 00 000000
W: 5:2 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
X: 5:3 78 08 08 70 00 60 606000
Y: 6:0 06 00 00 02 00 00 000000
Z: 6:1 0f 08 08 00 00 06 020600
AA: 6:2 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
BB: 6:3 01 00 00 00 00 00 000000
CC: 7:0 92 80 80 02 00 12 121200
DD: 7:1 01 00 00 00 00 00 000000
EE: 7:2 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000
FF: 7:3 00 00 00 00 00 00 000000

sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tegra_pinctrl_reg | grep -i spi

Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003050 Val: 0x0000e044 → spi1_mosi_pc0
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003054 Val: 0x0000e044 → spi1_miso_pc1
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003058 Val: 0x0000e044 → spi1_sck_pc2
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x7000305c Val: 0x0000e048 → spi1_cs0_pc3
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003060 Val: 0x0000e048 → spi1_cs1_pc4
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003064 Val: 0x00006044 → spi2_mosi_pb4
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003068 Val: 0x00006044 → spi2_miso_pb5
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x7000306c Val: 0x00006044 → spi2_sck_pb6
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003070 Val: 0x00006048 → spi2_cs0_pb7
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003074 Val: 0x00006048 → spi2_cs1_pdd0
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003078 Val: 0x0000e015 → spi4_mosi_pc7
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x7000307c Val: 0x0000e015 → spi4_miso_pd0
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003080 Val: 0x0000e015 → spi4_sck_pc5
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003084 Val: 0x0000e015 → spi4_cs0_pc6
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003088 Val: 0x00002040 → qspi_sck_pee0
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x7000308c Val: 0x00002000 → qspi_cs_n_pee1
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003090 Val: 0x00002040 → qspi_io0_pee2
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003094 Val: 0x00002040 → qspi_io1_pee3
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x70003098 Val: 0x00002040 → qspi_io2_pee4
Bank: 1 Reg: 0x7000309c Val: 0x00002040 → qspi_io3_pee5
Bank: 0 Reg: 0x70000b70 Val: 0x00000001 → drive_qspi_comp_control
Bank: 0 Reg: 0x70000b78 Val: 0x00000001 → drive_qspi_lpbk_control
Bank: 0 Reg: 0x70000a78 Val: 0x00808000 → drive_qspi_comp

ls /dev/spidev*

/dev/spidev0.0 /dev/spidev0.1 /dev/spidev1.0 /dev/spidev1.1

jetson@jetson:~$ ./spidev_test -D /dev/spidev0.0 -v
spi mode: 0x0
bits per word: 8
max speed: 500000 Hz (500 KHz)
TX | FF FF FF FF FF FF 40 00 00 00 00 95 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF F0 0D | …@…�…�.
RX | 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | …
jetson@jetson:~$ ./spidev_test -D /dev/spidev0.1 -v
spi mode: 0x0
bits per word: 8
max speed: 500000 Hz (500 KHz)
TX | FF FF FF FF FF FF 40 00 00 00 00 95 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF F0 0D | …@…�…�.
RX | 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | …
Here is a dtb of my board:

dtc -I fs -O dts -o extracted_proc.dts /proc/device-tree

extracted_proc.zip (45.6 KB)

Hi OKOK98,

Please refer to the steps in Jetson Nano SPI Bus Not Working - Jetson & Embedded Systems / Jetson Nano - NVIDIA Developer Forums to verify SPI loopback test on Jetson Nano devkit.

It seems you don’t remove the GPIO usage for those SPI pins.

Thanks, I will try

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