RetroBSD

Hi friends,

Another LCD display driver is available, this time for a cheap 2.4" TFT Arduino shield:



All the gpanel demos work the same on this display, although with reduced resolution 320x240. The performance is about 3 times slower than Picadillo-35T:
The sources are here: https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd/bl ... 2/st7781.c

I use this shield with chipKIT WF32 board. Here is an example of the kernel configuration for ST7781 driver:
It should be possible to use it on Duinomite and Maximite as well, just modify the signal to pin mapping.

I got this board from Ebay a few months ago for $5. It took some effort for me to find out which controller this board is based upon, and it turned out to be Sitronics ST7781. It's rumored that new revisions of this board have another controller, like ILI9325. In this case it would not work with this driver.

There is ILI9340 version and another few as well (I've found spfd5408 ILI9341 ILI9320 and 7781 versions on ebay).

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Hi Serge and all,

Would there be any speed advantage if the bits of the 8 bit data to the LCD were on a single port?

i.e.- D0 -> port bit 0, D1 <-> port bit 1 and so forth.

I am suspecting that this would be lots faster if the bits were/could be assigned this way.

With 8 bit micros this makes a world of speed difference.

Wiz

With PMP 8bit you may go >10MBytes/sec (ie. used in my ramdisk driver).
The Serge's version there is much more flexible - you may use any pins available - and it cost time..

Also SPI TFT desplays are popular and easier to connect (7735, ILI9341, and dozen of others).
Not as fast as parallel 8/16bit ones. But good for retrobsd..

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Hi Wiz,
Yes, it would help a lot. But better to put the chip on a PMP bus, like Picadillo. In this case the driver can use simple and fast R/W transactions with /CS, /WR and /RD signals generated by hardware.