Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: qcs6490-rb3gen2: Enable CAN bus controller

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 1/9/26 3:05 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 06:23:39PM +0530, Viken Dadhaniya wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/8/2026 7:33 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 06:22:00PM +0530, Viken Dadhaniya wrote:
>>>> Enable the MCP2518FD CAN controller on the QCS6490 RB3 Gen2 platform.
>>>> The controller is connected via SPI3 and uses a 40 MHz oscillator.
>>>> A GPIO hog for GPIO0 is included to configure the CAN transceiver in
>>>> Normal mode during boot.
>>>
>>> The main question is: what is so different between RB3 Gen2 and previous
>>> RB boards which also incorporated this CAN controller? Are there any
>>> board differences or is it that nobody tested the CAN beforehand?
>>>
>>
>> The behavior is consistent across platforms, but I do not have details on
>> how other platforms were tested.
>>
>> On the RB3Gen2 board, communication with the PCAN interface requires the
>> CAN transceiver to be in normal mode. Since the GPIO-controller support
>> was recently integrated into the driver, I configured the transceiver using a
>> GPIO hog property. Without this configuration, the transceiver is not set
>> to normal mode, and CAN communication does not work.
> 
> How do we verify the mode on a running system? I have the boards, but I
> don't have anything connected to them over the CAN bus.
> 
> BTW: can you recommend any simple setup to actually test the CAN bus on
> those devices?

(please document the reply to this somewhere internally)

Konrad