On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > My company is building a product based on the Beaglebone black as a > reference design. We will be adding a touch screen with a capacitive touch > screen controller (Mitsubishi) using either a serial or USB protocol. The > LCD display will be wired to the BB similarly to the BB-VIEW cap (24 bit > RGB). We won't be using the resistive touch screen hardware on the BB.
How far are you in the design? aka, DON"T use the BB-VIEW's 24bit rgb lines design, they swapped RED & BLUE, which will make things a PAIN in the REAR for YOU! If you want 24bit steal/borrow the chipsee 24bit lcd design... > As I have no Linux driver development experience I hope I can make use of an > existing driver to support these two pieces of hardware. If necessary I can > adjust parameters in the driver source code for any differences in the > hardware. I suspect that the touch screen controller already emulates > either a USB HID mouse, or a serial mouse so an existing driver for one of > these would be a starting point. > > Then there is the matter of which Linux kernel source tree to use. We will > need QT support (I plan on using QT for the graphical framework for our > application). So far some of the best instructions on cross tools for > development for the BB suggest using Debian Jessie as the host platform, > which would imply using the same for the target, however I've also heard > that the TI developed kernels may be better. > > As my programming strengths are more on the application side than the kernel > side (I have done development work under Linux, and have configured and > built kernels before, but not entire system images for cross builds), I am > looking for some advice on how to get our platform working. Except for the > LCD/Touchscreen the only other hardware we will need to bring on board will > be additional USB serial ports and hubs, but support for these should > already be solidly in place in any base system we start with. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
