Does this work with the ILI9340?

I am using the Adafruit PiTFT 2.8 (w/buttons). After changing SPI_DEVICE = 1, the example works, but ONLY after I have run /usr/bin/fbi once to display an image. It appears that fbi does something that this script does not. No errors, just a blank screen

It seems that the disp.display is really really slow...
Anyone can confirm it?
Is there a way to noe redraw the entire screen but only the modified portion of the screen?

I'm using the Library with a Raspberry Pi 2 and a cheap 2.4" display and I am getting an increase in memory everytime I call clear().

As a workaround i currently use the following change:

def clear(self, color=(0,0,0)):
"""Clear the image buffer to the specified RGB color (default black)."""
width, height = self.buffer.size
#self.buffer.putdata([color]_(width_height))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(self.buffer)
draw.rectangle([(0,0),(width,height)], fill=color)
del draw

As a side effect I'm getting higher framerates in my particular usecase.

Create TFT LCD display class.

disp = TFT.ILI9341(DC, rst=RST, spi=SPI.SpiDev(SPI_PORT, SPI_DEVICE, max_speed_hz=64000000))

Initialize display.

draw = disp.draw()

Load an image.

image = Image.open('cat.png')

Resize the image and rotate it so it's 240x320 pixels.

image = image.rotate(90).resize((240, 320))

draw.ellipse((10, 10, 110, 80), outline=(0,255,0), fill=(0,0,255))
disp.display(image)
disp.display()

I have ported this library to work with the ILI9340, what would be the best way to merge the two?