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11 Sep 2026
7 min

Scenic on Nerves: scenes, graphs, drivers, and four things that bit me

Scenes, graphs, components and drivers on an STM32MP157F-DK2 — then the four gotchas that compile cleanly and fail on the device: the required assets module, the child spec that is a plain list, the missing input: style that made every button inert, and text_align: :center not working.

displayelixirembeddednervesscenicstm32mp1
10 Sep 2026
9 min

The STM32MP157F-DK2 display stack, and the Vivante GPU I did not need

Between an Elixir process and a lit pixel on the DK2 there is an LTDC, a MIPI DSI host, an OTM8009A panel and a Goodix touch controller. I spent a day preparing to enable the Vivante GC NanoUltra, then read scenic_driver_local's source and found it renders in software to /dev/fb0.

displayelixirembeddednervesscenicstm32mp1
10 Sep 2026
6 min

Previewing a Scenic UI on the host, with no screen and no board

An hour spent trying to open a window that was never going to be drawn, then the realisation that a Scenic graph is just data. Walking it and rendering to SVG found two layout bugs in a minute that had survived 49 tests and a review.

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