3.12.28-1-ARCH about rpi-firmware HOT 3 CLOSED

Just need to clarify on the steps to replicate:

1. download and write latest ARCH image to disk.
2. pacman-Syu to update to latest
3. ls /dev/ (both spidev0.0 and spidev0.1 are loaded and active )
4. install rpi-update ( wget https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/master/rpi-update -O /usr/bin/rpi-update && chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update )
5. update firmware ( REPO_URI=https://github.com/notro/rpi-firmware BRANCH=builtin rpi-update
   )
6. reboot
7. ls /dev/ (no spidev devices are loaded or active )

Thanks

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The builtin kernel has CONFIG_BCM2708_SPIDEV disabled.
This is done to let fbtft_device add SPI devices before the SPI master driver is probed.

If you need spidev use spi-config: https://github.com/notro/fbtft-spindle/wiki/Appendix#spidev

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Ahh, OK the lcd was not working and I was trying to debug, I wrongly assumed that if spidev.0 was not enabled that spi was not working, and that fbtft would not work.

I will close the issue, thanks for your help.

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