Project FreeBSD mobile phone : let's talk about the display I love to use

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:18:06 UTC
Hello to everyone.

I'm trying to create a mobile phone with the look and feel of the Black
Berry and with FreeBSD as an OS. This is the tutorial that I want to use as
a base :

https://hackaday.io/project/195587-blackberrypi-handheld

as you can see he used this display :

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/hyperpixel-4-square?variant=30138251444307

As soon as I saw it,I fell in love. I want to use that display for my DiY
phone. Problem is that I don't know if some code has been written as a
driver to turn it on. To be honest I'm not even sure about which board to
use. FreeBSD does not work well with the Arm low end boards.

I know that I want a slim phone. Do you have a board that you
would recommend me to use ?

Furthermore,the display should "match" well with the board,because I'm not
able to write a single piece of code.

I can accept a not finished piece of code,because if there is not much work
to do is not much,I can start a crowdfunding campaign to raise the money
and finish the job.

Everything is geared to linux so you must translate. I want to understand
if I have all the pieces needed.

Starting here:
[image: github.com]
hyperpixel4/src/hyperpixel4-overlay.dts at pi4 ยท pimoroni/hyperpixel4
<https://github.com/pimoroni/hyperpixel4/blob/pi4/src/hyperpixel4-overlay.dts>
I would like to know if some FreeBSD developer is working on these
compatible chipset :

compatible = "brcm,bcm2835";
compatible = "goodix,gt911";

Can someone share some relevant information about some useful piece of
code,links,that I can explore to understand if it is worth investing my
time and money on that display ?

Anyway,I don't want to use the oblong displays used by the Android
smartphone. That form factor is abused.

If the display that I found is not good,I will continue searching for
displays that have the same squared form factor.

-- 
Mario.