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[vintagewaffle]

The touch panel is slightly more than just dts tweaking, you also need to patch the panel driver and make sure it's compiled when building the kernel.
However once that is done, the touch panel works great, I have it running under armbian at the moment.

Help me out here because I'm a bit unsure what you are saying. I'm under the impression that Armbian is headless. How would the touch panel even be relevant in that environment?

I didn't start with the official armbian build, you can get the LCD working from it, but for the touch panel you have to recompile the kernel so I just built the whole image with the desktop option.

Armbian is very easy to build: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib


I'm trying to get some patches made so that it's repeatable but I'm running into some problems at the moment. 
It's based on the work of longsleep, ayufan and tkaiser already mentioned in this thread. 

I'll post up the patches once I get the build to work reliably without a bunch of manual steps.