SPI for native/ASCII communication?

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I noticed in the ODrive documentation that one of the GpioMode settings allows us to enable SPI_A on a GPIO port (GPIOMode setting 0x9). What can this SPI communication be used for? Can this be used for native/ascii communication with an external device, or is this exclusively for SPI communication with an encoder?

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This is exclusively for encoder communication. You can communicate with an external device using USB, UART or CAN, but not SPI.