M9names[m]: > <@9names:matrix.org> the hal will not include drivers for external hardware, no.
> you'll need to include a library crate like https://crates.io/crates/hd44780-driver (that's the most popular recent crate as shown in the crates.io search i shared).
> if you look at that page, you'll see that it supports both the parallel mode and i2c mode for that display.

Thanks for the quick help. You are a g :)