Can mipi-dbi-spi work with ili9488?

[hardl0ck]

I tried to run 3.5 inch LCD with driver ili9488 in 4-line SPI mode on fbtft overlay, but this driver (ili9488) does not support RGB565 mode in 4 line SPI. If driver init with RGB666, then i`m take wrong pictrure on the screen...

Can you explain to the newbie how to run this display (9488) using mipi-dbi-spi?

PS: Raspberry 3b, 5.15.36-v7+

[hardl0ck]

OK, a little about what I did in 4 days

pi@raspberry3b:~ $ mkdir mipi
pi@raspberry3b:~ $ cd mipi
pi@raspberry3b:~/mipi $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notro/panel-mipi-dbi/main/mipi-dbi-cmd
pi@raspberry3b:~/mipi $ chmod +x mipi-dbi-cmd
pi@raspberry3b:~/mipi $ nano mkstft35.txt

insert into mkstft35.txt config file:

command 0xE0 0x00 0x03 0x09 0x08 0x16 0x0A 0x3F 0x78 0x4C 0x09 0x0A 0x08 0x16 0x1A 0x0F #Positive Gamma Control
command 0xE1 0x00 0x16 0x19 0x03 0x0F 0x05 0x32 0x45 0x46 0x04 0x0E 0x0D 0x35 0x37 0x0F	#Negative Gamma Control
command 0xC0 0x17 0x15 			#Power Control 1
command 0xC1 0x41 			#Power Control 2
command 0xC5 0x00 0x12 0x80		#VCOM Control 1
command 0x36 0xE8			#Memory Access Control # BGR (0x0x = portrait 0° mirror, 0x8x = portrait 180°, 0x2x = landscape 90°, 0x4x = portrait 0°)
command 0x3A 0x66			#INTERFACE_PIXEL_FORMAT #0x66 - 18 bit colour for SPI, 0x55 16 bit colour for parallel
command 0xB0 0x80			#Interface Mode Control 219 page. 0x80 - SDO (MOSI) pin not used.
command 0xB1 0xA0			#Frame Rate Control
command 0xB4 0x02			#Display Inversion Control
command 0xB6 0x02 0x02 0x3B		#Display Function Control
command 0xB7 0x86			# Entry Mode Set p.233
command 0xE9 0x00			#Set Image Function
command 0xF7 0xA9 0x51 0x2C 0x82	#Adjust Control 3
command 0x11 				#Sleep out
delay 150				#delay 150
command 0x29				#Display On
delay 20				#delay 20

than...

pi@raspberry3b:~/mipi $ python3 mipi-dbi-cmd panel.bin mkstft35.txt
pi@raspberry3b:~/mipi $ sudo cp panel.bin /lib/firmware
pi@raspberry3b:~/mipi $ cd ..
pi@raspberry3b:~ $
pi@raspberry3b:~ $ sudo nano /boot/config.txt

uncomment:
dtparam=spi=on

add in the end of file:

dtoverlay=mipi-dbi-spi,spi0-0,speed=40000000
dtparam=width=480,height=320,width-mm=35,height-mm=28
dtparam=reset-gpio=25,dc-gpio=24
dtparam=write-only

and
pi@raspberry3b:~ $ sudo reboot

after reboot:

pi@raspberry3b:~ $ dmesg
----
[   11.044055] vc4-drm soc:gpu: bound 3f902000.hdmi (ops vc4_hdmi_ops [vc4])
[   11.044725] vc4-drm soc:gpu: bound 3f004000.txp (ops vc4_txp_ops [vc4])
[   11.045196] vc4-drm soc:gpu: bound 3f206000.pixelvalve (ops vc4_crtc_ops [vc4])
[   11.045684] vc4-drm soc:gpu: bound 3f207000.pixelvalve (ops vc4_crtc_ops [vc4])
[   11.046137] vc4-drm soc:gpu: bound 3f807000.pixelvalve (ops vc4_crtc_ops [vc4])
[   11.046510] vc4-drm soc:gpu: bound 3fc00000.v3d (ops vc4_v3d_ops [vc4])
[   11.055520] [drm] Initialized vc4 0.0.0 20140616 for soc:gpu on minor 0
[   11.056186] vc4-drm soc:gpu: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[   11.536998] panel-mipi-dbi-spi spi0.0: supply power not found, using dummy regulator
[   11.545131] [drm] Initialized panel-mipi-dbi 1.0.0 20220103 for spi0.0 on minor 1
[   11.549774] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 60x40
[   11.549848] panel-mipi-dbi-spi spi0.0: [drm] fb0: panel-mipi-dbid frame buffer device
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On the screen this picture.

How to get the correct data format (RGB666)?

[notro]

How to get the correct data format (RGB666)?

The driver does only support RGB565 as does fbtft.

[hardl0ck]

The driver does only support RGB565 as does fbtft.
can the diver work with the ili9488 LCD in parallel mode?

[notro]

No the DRM driver doesn't support that. The fbtft driver supports that but it is worse than SPI with DMA because it bitbangs the bus.

[hardl0ck]

Thanks for your reply. Maybe you know the solution for this LCD? I could not find anything intelligible, except for the need to recompile the kernel, which is very difficult for me....

[notro]

Maybe you know the solution for this LCD?

Sorry no, the documentation looks horrible as is often the case with these chinese displays. But on the positive side they do publish schematics and firmware sourcecode.

It looks like the display has a USB 2.0 OTG connector, maybe you can persuade them to write firmware that implements the GUD USB display protocol: https://github.com/notro/gud/wiki/GUD-Protocol
That would make the display plug and play.

[hardl0ck]

Perhaps we are talking about different LCDs.
ili9488 is very similar to ili9486.
The registers are slightly different, but this is not a problem. Datasheet below There is no USB in this LCD:
ILI9488 Data Sheet.pdf

[notro]

Indeed we do, Robin was missing from the one I looked at. Do you have a link I can look at?

[hardl0ck]

Sorry, but I did not find a datasheet for this LCD (marking CL35BC106-40A). This screen (MKS Robin TFT35 v1.0) is installed on many 3D printers with the mainmoard MKS Robin nano v1.1 - v1.2. It is very similar for MKS TS35 (https://github.com/makerbase-mks/MKS-TFT-Hardware/tree/master/MKS%20TS35/MKS%20TS35%20V2.0_002). But MKS TS35 have a LCD with ST7796 driver. There is only a pinout and a wiring diagram of pcb. I just made a few jumpers on the factory board to get the correct 4-wire SPI connection.
As a result of trial and error, I found out that the controller in this LCD is lintek. ili9488 (datasheet in my previous message).

[notro]

Where did you find the initialization commands?

[hardl0ck]

Where did you find the initialization commands?

notro/fbtft#490

[notro]

Ok, a controller has certain configuration commands but it's the display panel that decides what the parameters should be. In other words: two displays with an ILI9488 controller can have two different controller configurations. You need to find a library or some code that works with your display and use those configuration commands. Is there any open source code for the MKS Robin nano you can look at?

[hardl0ck]

Marlin 2.0 (https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin) has support for this mainboards and this LCD. When assembling sources for my configuration, ili9488 driver is used.
Conditionals_LCD.h

#elif ENABLED(MKS_ROBIN_TFT35)      // ILI9488
  #define TFT_DEFAULT_ORIENTATION (TFT_EXCHANGE_XY | TFT_INVERT_X | TFT_INVERT_Y)
  #define TFT_RES_480x320
  #define TFT_INTERFACE_FSMC

[hardl0ck]

But I forgot to add. Robin nano 1.2 uses a parallel interface to TFT35 ...