Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 03:36:40 -0400 From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Anybody using an Adafruit PiTFT display? Message-ID: <CAOh3dDaCq-RT02-yfqUUTbzw1kG=_MSCyZ6v-j9j1BTgaMJYEw@mail.gmail.com>
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Adafruit doesn't support anything but Raspbian officially, but one guy there is a NetBSD user. I'm not really qualified but I bought the display and I'm starting to look into making it work under FreeBSD, but only because OpenBSD doesn't support the Pi and I don't like Linux. I've been using OpenBSD about 14 years, once in a while FreeBSD. It uses a framebuffer which I'm not totally familiar with, and console output and X output can appear on its screen. It's a 2.8 inch TFT LCD with LED backlight and touchscreen, plugs into the GPIO connector. It's supported partly by Adafruit's patches to the Linux kernel, connects mostly to the SPI interface and a couple GPIO pins, sells for about $40. If I do a dmesg to a file, then shut down, plug in the board, boot back up and do a dmesg to another file and compare the files it looks like nothing on the board is recognized. New hobby. Anyone done anything with one? Alan -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JXhome | help
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