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Still searching for LCD example c-code (Linux) for Arria 10

Altera_Forum
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Can somebody point me to an example Linux application that writes to the LCD on the Arria10 development board via the hard controller on the HPS? If not, how about a document that gets close? As I see it, the GSRD should have drivers ready to go, but I haven't found anything that explains how to do this.

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Altera_Forum
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Got my answer from Rocketboards forum... 

 

You can write to it very simply by just echoing text to it from the command line (this may be a helpful first step regardless of the end goal). Look in the /dev folder for the correct name but i believe it will always show up as ttyLCD0: 

echo “Testing LCD” > /dev/ttyLCD0 

 

From user space you can create code to open the same path and perform writes very similar to a file, such as : 

lcd_handle = open("/dev/ttyLCD0", write) 

fprintf(lcd_handle, “First Line\nSecod Line”)
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