/products/devtools/single-board-computers/next-genbeaglebone/b/blog/posts/beaglebone-enable-spi-with-overlay-and-from-command-lineA little side story in the project to control a stepper motor with the BeagleBone PRU .How to enable SPI. The DRV8711 stepper motor controller DRV8711 stepper motor controller that I use is configured with SPI commands.On a Raspberri Pi, act...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/products/devtools/single-board-computers/next-genbeaglebone/b/blog/posts/beaglebone-enable-spi-with-overlay-and-from-command-lineMon, 12 Aug 2019 13:42:03 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9799131c-de5e-49c4-88ea-3d91ea9a0d12Jan Cumps0<p>Documentation for @self: <span>[mention:c6202f95d55d4f2fa96d7a938f9e0ff5:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]</span>&#39;s recent blog on overlays: <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://beagleboard.org/blog/2018-01-17-building-a-device-tree-overlay-for-your-new-pocketcape-design" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank" title="https://beagleboard.org/blog/2018-01-17-building-a-device-tree-overlay-for-your-new-pocketcape-design">https://beagleboard.org/blog/2018-01-17-building-a-device-tree-overlay-for-your-new-pocketcape-design</a> </p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7520&AppID=80&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/products/devtools/single-board-computers/next-genbeaglebone/b/blog/posts/beaglebone-enable-spi-with-overlay-and-from-command-lineSun, 28 Jul 2019 16:53:57 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9799131c-de5e-49c4-88ea-3d91ea9a0d12shabaz1<p>Hi Jan,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Excellent work documenting all these features.</p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p><span>depends on the Linux flavour (and changing in the future</span></p></blockquote><p>Sometimes I think it&#39;s deliberate intent to make things as difficult as possible, to not do things right the first time, and then break things in future.</p><p>(Not just BBB, Pi has all sorts of these things too).</p><p>The ugly .dtbo file names should have been resolved years ago too, with (say) symbolic links.. no reason for them to still have that -00A0 in the file name!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#39;s great you&#39;re documenting all this, since I trust this over all the older BBB blog posts, most of which have issues now due to changes.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7520&AppID=80&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">