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