Re: Patch adds support for the Adafruit PiPlate

Markus Dolze <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:26:36 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.lcdproc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jon,

thank you for your submission. You don't need to resubmit patches
(unless it doesn't show up in the mailing list archive). They are
reviewed if I have some spare time.

Regards,
Markus

On 25.03.2013 14:18, Jonathan Brogdon wrote:
> Never saw a response on the corrected patch for the Adafruit PiPlate.
>  Resubmitting.
>
> Jon
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Jonathan Brogdon* <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:34 AM
> Subject: [Lcdproc] Patch adds support for the Adafruit PiPlate
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>
>
> You are correct regarding the blue backlight pin.  I've fixed the
> code, and attached a new patch.
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Markus Dolze <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     On 11.02.2013 22:32, Jonathan Brogdon wrote:
>     > Never saw this on the mailing list, or a response.  Re-sending.
>     >
>     > Jon
>     >
>     > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     > From: *Jonathan Brogdon* <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>
>     > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>     > Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:26 AM
>     > Subject: [PATCH] Add support for the Adafruit PiPlate
>     > To: [email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >
>     >
>     > For your consideration, I have attached a v0.5.6 patch which adds a
>     > driver for the Adafruit PiPlate (http://adafruit.com/products/1109).
>     >  The PiPlate includes a HD44780 LCD and 5 button keys which is
>     > accessed via a MCP23017 I2C IO expander.
>     >
>     > The driver was adapted from the HD44780-i2c driver, which uses the
>     > PCF8574 I2C IO expander.
>     >
>     > Jon Brogdon
>     >
>
>     Hi,
>
>     please read [1]. Thank you.
>
>     [1] http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/current-dev.html#code-style
>
>     According to the schematic from [1], the pin for blue backlight is on
>     GPB0, not on GPA8 (which does not exist anyway).
>
>     Is the schematic wrong or did I miss something?
>
>     [2]
>     http://learn.adafruit.com/system/assets/assets/000/003/861/original/pilcdplate.png?1360171818
>
>     Regards,
>     Markus
>
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