4 bit LCD interface on 823e not working

[Hihn Jason]

Ya know, I was just barinstorming trying to figure out why I'd have to do
this 16 entry cmap for a 1bpp, then it dawned on me. The 823e is just
treating a nibble as a 16 color pixel. It'll let the display work it out
that it's actually 4 pixels. So it'll just do a pallette lookup as it would
for 16 color. This is probably why there's no rhyme or reason to my random
bit mappings. So once I set the 4 bits in the GLC to the index that they are
(so everything corresponds directly, therefore becoming a transparent
pass-through; i ut 0101 on the screen, it gets looked up at index 0101, find
0101 there and sends that out) everything will line up and I'll get the
pixels I want. Still, I'd expect a more random pattern every time I reset
the CPU and re-ran the same test (floating bits float)

Does this make sense to anyone other than myself? Anyone know if I'm right?
Thanks
-Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: Hihn Jason
To: 'Dr. Craig Hollabaugh'; Linuxppc-Embedded at Lists. Linuxppc. Org (E-mail)
Sent: 8/26/02 11:16 PM
Subject: RE: 4 bit LCD interface on 823e not working


I'm using port D[0-3] (PD12-15) for data. FLM, CP and LP are coming from
PD[5,4,3]
It's a passive monochrome display. I've configured it as such. It should
be
working.
(See Fig 18-4 in the book) It came with an 8 bit color NEC display that
worked, so I'm assuming there's a valid config already. I've checked
PD_DIR
and _PAR and they all seem to be correct.

My problems may or may not be related to the driver. It makes a horrible
assumption that the color map is as deep as the display depth. This is
normally true, but not for the 823e. 16 values must be programmed into
the
cmap. Maybe this is why my bits aren't coming out right. I'm attempting
to
adjust the driver to match*, but now my display doesn't even work
incorrectly. :-(

* I went into fbcmap.c and made a 3 new arrays and a new structure.
red[16]={0}, green[16]={0}, blue[16]={0..15}. (See 18-3 in the manual)
Blue's bits line up with 'GLC' when in not-color modes. (Transp is for
displays that have RGBA) Then I packed it into a fb_cmap struct called
default_mono and made the necessary changes where I thought they were
needed
(fb_default_cmap()).

Adding to my confusion is 'int con' is passed into numerous functions in
lcd832e.c but is never explained and I can't tell where it's coming
from.

Why or how a 1 bpp connection needs a 16 entry palette is beyond me.
Any help on this issue is greatly appreciated!

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Craig Hollabaugh [mailto:craig at hollabaugh.com]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 3:34 PM
To: Hihn Jason; Linuxppc-Embedded at Lists. Linuxppc. Org (E-mail)
Subject: Re: 4 bit LCD interface on 823e not working


>I'm digging in the 823e book for any registers that may need to be
changed.
>-Jason


Which port are you using?
How are you configuring it?
Do you have the all the peripherals turned off?


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