On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:59 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've spent more than a day now trying to get a custom LCD cape to work with
> the latest BB-G Debian distribution (7.9, 3.8.13) and can't say I've really
> made any progress though I have learned a few things.
>
> The LCD is wired to be compatible with the 4D systems LCD7 though without
> the touchscreen, buttons, or LEDs.  If I enable BB-BONE-LCD7-01:00A3 on boot
> then I get a mouse pointer in the middle of the screen but this slowly fades
> to a completely black screen.  I was encouraged by this and figured I just
> had to change the timings in the device tree to match my specific LCD.
>
> I downloaded the overlay sources from github/bb.org-overlays and as a test
> just copied BB-BONE-LCD7-01-00A3.dts to BB-BONE-LCD7-01-00A7.dts, changed
> the version string, compiled (with the updated dtc), installed, enabled
> (uEnv.txt) and rebooted.  The overlay actually fails to load with a
> complaing that gpio0 is undefined.  This is just a hint that things aren't
> going to go well.  The gpio0 reference is for one of the buttons which I
> don't need.  I tried removing the entries for the touchscreen and buttons
> but then I just get complains that the 'display-timings' node is missing.
>
> The bottom line is that it doesn't appear that the device tree sources at
> https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays are built to work correctly
> with my kernel.  In fact the notes at the bottom of the page all talk about
> 4.1 and no mention of 3.8.  Are there corresponding sources for the 3.8
> kernel or am I better off loading a 4.1 image?  I'd prefer to stay with 3.8
> as I have other hardware in this project that requires a driver that I
> haven't tried yet with 4.1 but I'm willing to try if that's the best way.

That repo is 4.1 only,

You can grab the 3.8 version from:

https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/3.8/firmware/capes

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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