How to set SPI speed for ATmega1284P?

Question

I am using MightyCore and platformio. My config file looks like this

My fuses are set as:

E:FD 
H:D6 
L:8F

I have controller running at 16 MHz and SCK frequency is 8 MHz. My display is showing white color and that is it. I know to make it function properly I have to use 1 MHz SPI clocking. If I program CKDIV8 fuse my controller doesn't start. I dunno why, kind of black magic going on there for me. My lack of knowledge is not helpful there.

I tried to use the following tricks:

Setting SPI speed using TFT library

// earlier in main.cpp
Adafruit_ST7735 tft = Adafruit_ST7735(TFT_CS, TFT_DC, TFT_RST);
// later in setup()
tft.setSPISpeed(1000000); // has no effect on SCK

Trying to set it directly via SPI class instance:

// in setup()
SPI.setClockDivider(SPI_CLOCK_DIV128); // no effect

Or statically:

// in setup()
SPIClass::setClockDivider(SPI_CLOCK_DIV128); // still no effect

Also I tried to pass DEFAULT_SPI_FREQ build flag with frequency preset.

I ran out of ideas.

Schematic is here: Schematic

• Juraj: is setSPISpeed after init?
• timemage: "If I program CKDIV8 fuse my controller doesn't start." How are you determining this?
• zoonman: @Juraj no. It was before. I placed it after and it works now.
• zoonman: @timemage I have some pin manipulations later in setup() and they aren't happening.
• Juraj: why would you place it before? init initializes SPI and then of course sets the default value.

Answer 1

Per this issue setSPISpeed has to be made after initR like this:

tft.initR(INITR_BLACKTAB);
tft.setSPISpeed(1000000);

• Juraj: init initializes SPI and of course sets the default value. you can change it only after that
• zoonman: @Juraj I have no idea what was going on in Adafruit engineers head. The display fails to init @ 8 MHz because SPI is too fast for it. It has to be initialized at 1 MHz then it supposed to function properly.