How can I use adafruit ili9341 TFT LCD as Edison's base display?

[mfu1]

I found that ili9341 can be used by Python.But I want to use it as Edison's base display when it starts up, so that I can read all Yocto information from it instead of using Putty.

I googled this topic with no result.

Anybody has solution?

[asss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

ili9341 is a module of UPM that requires MRAA to works. It is available for Python to use.

But a base display works using another way: it requires a kernel driver to work.

It is possible to do:

https://github.com/notro/fbtft https://github.com/notro/fbtft

http://marcosgildavid.blogspot.ru/2014/02/getting-ili9341-spi-screen-working-on.html http://marcosgildavid.blogspot.ru/2014/02/getting-ili9341-spi-screen-working-on.html

http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/FB_TFT_ILI9341.html http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/FB_TFT_ILI9341.html

BR,

xbolshe

[mfu1]

Thank you very much for your suggestion..

I will try it.

I found this link https://github.com/notro/fbtft/blob/master/fbtft_device.c fbtft/fbtft_device.c at master · notro/fbtft · GitHub, this article says adafruit 2.8 ili9341 is supported.

{.name = "adafruit28",.spi = &(struct spi_board_info) {.modalias = "fb_ili9341",.max_speed_hz = 32000000,.mode = SPI_MODE_0,.platform_data = &(struct fbtft_platform_data) {.display = {<td class="blob-code-inner blob-code js-file-line" style="padding: 0px 10px; color: # 333333; overflow: visible; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre; position: relative; -ms-wo...