Enable touchscreen for beaglebone black board in yocto project

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Hi
I built a core-image-sato image for beaglebone black using yocto project for MACHINE=“beaglebone”. I am using the meta-ti layer.
Now I want to enable touchscreen for my board. What are the things that I need to add in my yocto configuration to do this?

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That is pretty involved and depends on the touch screen among others.

This is not your answer however it is how I treat this issue, if you only need a touchscreen that does not render dynamic content your best solution is to use a HMI like Nextion or similar. It interfaces with the UART. If you need dynamic content it would be better to upgrade to a multi-core device like the BP, Ai64 class board.

This all depends on what your demands are for a touchscreen, if this is a one off prototype the nextion will be up and running in a fraction of the time you will spend getting a touch screen up. I wish there was an out of the box solution, maybe some others can share their thoughts on this.

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