{"id":529,"date":"2014-01-05T23:42:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=529"},"modified":"2016-10-31T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T23:33:18","slug":"playing-with-spi-lcd-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Playing with SPI lcd drivers."},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last little while I’ve been wanting to build a tiny MAME cabinet. I had a Raspi sitting around, and bought a few little LCDs recently on e-bay. So over the last few days I’ve been getting my Linux chops back and cross compiled up a Linux framebuffer driver for this little spi display. It is 320×200, and uses the ILI9341 in 8-bit spi mode (i.e. is has s D\/C line). After a bunch of digging I came upon the notro’s drivers (here<\/a>). After setting up a ubuntu vm on my mac, I got these drivers to cross-compile. I was surprised how slow a linux kernel build is these days.<\/p>\n

Here is my raspberry pi in a custom case, running the compiled in framebuffer driver.
\nI’ve tried getting advmame running.<\/p>\n

With a little box like this, there are a whole bunch of possibilities for things to do with it.<\/p>\n

– Mini Mame<\/a>
\n– MPD <\/a>server and client running on the display, with web interface for control
\n– Shairport<\/a> server<\/p>\n

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\"Raspberry<\/a>

Raspberry Pi w\/SPI LCD<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"RPi<\/a>

RPi booting<\/p><\/div>\n

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