Created attachment 282567 [details] Pulseview session showing the issue when using software CE Regardless of spi settings, the sck line is high while not in a transaction. Before starting one, it goes low, but it still interferes in combination with a software ce pin, leading to corrupt data. This seems to be a known issue to the broader community, but I couldn't find an existing bug report on the lkml or on bugzilla. See here for further infos and potential fix: http://linux-sunxi.org/SPIdev#Bugs.2FCaveats (Issue occured on orange pi one)