2015-01-19 The FBTFT drivers are now in the Linux kernel staging tree: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/tree/drivers/staging/fbtft?h=staging-testing Development in this github repo has ceased.
Linux Framebuffer drivers for small TFT LCD display modules. The module 'fbtft' makes writing drivers for some of these displays very easy.
Development is done on a Raspberry Pi running the Raspbian "wheezy" distribution.
INSTALLATION Download kernel sources
From Linux 3.15
cd drivers/video/fbdev
git clone https://github.com/notro/fbtft.git
Add to drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig: source "drivers/video/fbdev/fbtft/Kconfig"
Add to drivers/video/fbdev/Makefile: obj-y += fbtft/Before Linux 3.15
cd drivers/video
git clone https://github.com/notro/fbtft.git
Add to drivers/video/Kconfig: source "drivers/video/fbtft/Kconfig"
Add to drivers/video/Makefile: obj-y += fbtft/Enable driver(s) in menuconfig and build the kernel
See wiki for more information: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki
Source: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/