Contribution Question - MKS IPS50 HDMI, ST7796 LCD, MKSPI/SKIPR Boards

[MaxM]

Hi here,

 

as a hobby project I forked Armbian repo to add support of someone "new" hardware, mostly around 3D printing and mostly because no support from the vendor side.

 

At this moment I have following almost independent components:

1. a kernel module for ST7796 (LCD controller connected via SPI and working as frame buffer module/device)
2. a patch for HDMI configuration to support MKS IPS50 screen (800x480, 5:3 aspect ration with some weird EDID)
3. configuration with related patches for MKSPI, SKIPR and a few derivatives boards + some DTS overlay for one related/specific use case. It's a "Renegade ROC-RK3328-CC" based board(s) which was adapted for some specific use cases (kinda "cost effective" alternative of Raspberry PI with pretty deep adaptions for for 3D printers)

 

Is there are any interest to contribute these changes to official Armbian code base? If yes, which of these parts?

 

Additional remarks:
1. At the moment, these changes have been tested on real equipment (to the best of my knowledge and capabilities ) and have proven stable enough for everyday usage.
2. I am not a Makerbase/MKS developer and have no any connection with this company. It's my "weekends project" for my personal purposes.
3. Fork repo: https://github.com/redrathnure/armbian-mkspi

 

 

Best regards and thank you for your efforts,

Maxim

[robertoj]

I am interested in the ST7796 kernel module

 

 

Can anybody check whether Sitronix ST7796 is included in the current or latest kernel? fb or drm?