[lcd4linux] News from LCD4Linux

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hey guys,

I cut off some spare time for LCD4Linux lately. There are some good
news:

- a beta driver for M50530 displays is up and running
- another beta driver for T6963 displays is up and running

The M50530 driver has been in the CVS for months now, did anybody test
this stuff?

The T6963 driver is brandnew, and only works with a special Display
called "TLC-1091" from Toshiba. This display is _real_ big, it's full
graphical (i.e. you can control every single dot) and has a resolution
of 240x128 pixels. 

If anybody out there has another T6963 display, I'd like to generalize
the driver so other displays would be supported, too.

With both drivers a was bitten by the speed of my computer (an Athlon
XP-1800+). Some of the 'implicit ' delays dod not work anymore, seems
like syscall latency is getting better and better on linux :-)

Now I implemented a slightly modified delay system, which can produce
delays with nanosecond resolution. With this new function (I called it
ndelay) I can follow the different timing specs from the datasheets
quite exactly, and it looks like it works fine!


Both drivers are not released now, but can be fetched from CVS at
sourceforge. If anyone needs assistance with CVS, let me know.

Please test and report!


bye, Michael

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