Zephyr drivers for SPI and GPIO were updated recently to allow ARC to directly access GPIO including AON_GPIO and SPI. You do not need x86 at all.
Please see the updated driver and sample app for BMI160 (top of the free, master).
Thanks Baohong
From: Mahendravarman Rajarao (RBEI/EAA3) [mailto:Mahendravarman.Rajarao(a)in.bosch.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:24 AM To: devel(a)lists.zephyrproject.org Subject: [devel] reg: Routing SPI signals connected from x86 core to the Arc core
Hi
We have connected an Accelerometer to the x86 core of C1000 (Quark_se) through SPI interface. Interrupt line of accelerometer is also connected to the AON_GPIO_3
Now I need to route the SPI connection of x86 to Arc core. Is that possible ?
Any sample code in zephyr I can refer for this activity ?