diff --git a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_43/partitions.csv b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_43/partitions.csv
index f3a1f39..0229d7c 100644
--- a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_43/partitions.csv
+++ b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_43/partitions.csv
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Name, Type, SubType, Offset, Size, Flags
 # The LilyGO T-Embed S3 and the Waveshare ESP32-S3-LCD-4.3 carry images built
-# from this table. factory stays at 0x380000 and vfs at 0x3a0000: a build that
+# from this table, and so does the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7 (its board
+# directory uses this one). factory stays at 0x380000 and vfs at 0x3a0000: a build that
 # moved them left one board hanging in fs_corrupted() before USB came up and
 # formatted over the other one's filesystem (cmods#30). 8MB flash.
 
diff --git a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/board.json b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/board.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..73fb5f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/board.json
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{
+    "deploy": [
+        "../deploy.md"
+    ],
+    "deploy_options": {
+        "flash_offset": "0"
+    },
+    "docs": "",
+    "features": [
+        "BLE",
+        "External Flash",
+        "External RAM",
+        "WiFi"
+    ],
+    "images": [
+        "generic_s3.jpg"
+    ],
+    "mcu": "esp32s3",
+    "product": "Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7",
+    "thumbnail": "",
+    "url": "https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-touch-lcd-7.htm",
+    "vendor": "Waveshare",
+    "variants": {
+        "SPIRAM_OCT": "Support for Octal-SPIRAM"
+    },
+    "old_variants": {
+        "FLASH_4M": [
+            "4MiB flash",
+            "Use the standard variant instead."
+        ]
+    }
+}
diff --git a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/board.md b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/board.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4fc5a22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/board.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7: an ESP32-S3 with octal PSRAM driving an
+800x480 RGB panel, with Wi-Fi and often a USB host running beside it. Use the
+SPIRAM_OCT variant.
+
+It is the 4.3" board's configuration (same chip, memory and partition table:
+`../WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_43/sdkconfig.board`) plus `sdkconfig.lcd7`,
+which protects internal DMA RAM and the Wi-Fi link from the panel; see the
+comments there. Its `board_config.py` should pass `bounce_rows=10` and a
+14 MHz pixel clock (PyDevices/pydevices#96).
diff --git a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/manifest.py b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/manifest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b663ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/manifest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# What this board carries when no FROZEN_MANIFEST is given: everything. Pass
+# FROZEN_MANIFEST=../../../micropython-pydevices/manifests/<preset>.py for a
+# smaller set.
+include("../../../manifests/kitchen-sink.py")
diff --git a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigboard.cmake b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigboard.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20f0620
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigboard.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7: an 8 MB-table ESP32-S3 with octal PSRAM.
+# The stock ESP32_GENERIC_S3 board, unchanged; what this board adds is in
+# mpconfigvariant_SPIRAM_OCT.cmake beside it.
+include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/boards/ESP32_GENERIC_S3/mpconfigboard.cmake)
+
+# Two things upstream's esp32 port does with FROZEN_MANIFEST that this file
+# straightens out, in the place upstream gives a board to do it:
+#
+# 1. A FROZEN_MANIFEST given relative to the port directory (how every other
+#    port takes it) reaches makemanifest relative to the BUILD directory,
+#    because the Makefile hands it to idf.py unchanged. Absolutize it against
+#    the port directory, in both the variable and the copy the port took of
+#    it before including this file, so the same spelling works everywhere.
+# 2. With no FROZEN_MANIFEST at all, the port falls back to its own
+#    boards/manifest.py, not this board's -- a board that wants its own
+#    default says so here, which is upstream's own idiom.
+# idf.py caches -D values: to return to this board's default after building
+# with a preset, start from a clean build directory.
+if(MICROPY_USER_FROZEN_MANIFEST)
+    if(NOT IS_ABSOLUTE "${MICROPY_USER_FROZEN_MANIFEST}")
+        get_filename_component(MICROPY_USER_FROZEN_MANIFEST "${MICROPY_USER_FROZEN_MANIFEST}" ABSOLUTE BASE_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}")
+        set(MICROPY_FROZEN_MANIFEST "${MICROPY_USER_FROZEN_MANIFEST}")
+    endif()
+else()
+    set(MICROPY_FROZEN_MANIFEST ${MICROPY_BOARD_DIR}/manifest.py)
+endif()
diff --git a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigboard.h b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigboard.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c2d0e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigboard.h
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// The stock ESP32_GENERIC_S3 header, unchanged.
+#include "boards/ESP32_GENERIC_S3/mpconfigboard.h"
+
+// usbif: extend TinyUSB's device configuration (descriptor + class config are
+// provided by the usbif external C module). Guarded by __has_include so the
+// board still builds when usbif is not in the preset: the header is on the
+// include path only because usbif's micropython.cmake contributes that
+// directory, so this is exactly an "is the module in this build" test. MSC is
+// inside the guard too -- the class is useless without usbif, which supplies
+// the block callbacks and chooses what the drive holds from Python at runtime.
+// Moved here from cmods' board-header patch, 2026-09-23.
+#if defined(__has_include)
+#if __has_include("usbif_tusb_ext.h")
+#define MICROPY_HW_USB_EXT_TUSB_CONFIG  "usbif_tusb_ext.h"
+#define MICROPY_HW_USB_MSC (1)
+#endif
+#endif
diff --git a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigvariant_SPIRAM_OCT.cmake b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigvariant_SPIRAM_OCT.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d139f16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/mpconfigvariant_SPIRAM_OCT.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# The stock SPIRAM_OCT variant, then the 4.3" board's sdkconfig fragment (the
+# partition table and everything the two boards share), then this board's
+# own. The appends come LAST, in that order: kconfgen takes the last
+# assignment in SDKCONFIG_DEFAULTS, so a fragment listed before the port's own
+# is silently overridden (cmods#29), and sdkconfig.lcd7 must win over the
+# shared values it changes.
+include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/boards/ESP32_GENERIC_S3/mpconfigvariant_SPIRAM_OCT.cmake)
+list(APPEND SDKCONFIG_DEFAULTS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_43/sdkconfig.board)
+list(APPEND SDKCONFIG_DEFAULTS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/sdkconfig.lcd7)
diff --git a/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/sdkconfig.lcd7 b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/sdkconfig.lcd7
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f8b196
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/esp32/WAVESHARE_ESP32_S3_TOUCH_LCD_7/sdkconfig.lcd7
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7, on top of the 4.3" board's sdkconfig.board.
+# Measured 2026-09-25 with spotapi's remote on the panel and earful streaming
+# Spotify into a USB sound card hosted on the native port (earful
+# docs/lcd-7.md).
+#
+# Internal DMA-capable RAM is what runs out first on this board: the panel's
+# bounce buffers, the Wi-Fi driver, hardware AES and the USB host all need
+# it. With the shared settings the DMA region sat at 24 bytes free, then
+# esp-aes failed to allocate and Wi-Fi dropped.
+#
+# Every malloc() under this size went to internal RAM first (the port's
+# default is 8 KB); code that needs internal or DMA memory asks for it
+# explicitly and still gets it.
+CONFIG_SPIRAM_MALLOC_ALWAYSINTERNAL=512
+# Unread socket data holds Wi-Fi RX buffers, which are internal DMA RAM: cap
+# how many exist and how much a socket may have in flight. Audio at 160 kbps
+# and Web API replies need far less than the shared 32 KB window.
+CONFIG_ESP_WIFI_DYNAMIC_RX_BUFFER_NUM=24
+CONFIG_ESP_WIFI_STATIC_RX_BUFFER_NUM=6
+CONFIG_ESP_WIFI_RX_BA_WIN=8
+CONFIG_LWIP_TCP_WND_DEFAULT=16384
+CONFIG_LWIP_TCP_RECVMBOX_SIZE=16
+
+# 1 ms tick. At 100 Hz, MicroPython's sleep_ms() under one tick falls through
+# to mp_hal_delay_us() and busy-waits with the GIL held: appdev's 10 ms loop
+# kept the UI thread 54 % busy while idle and starved every other Python
+# thread, and 2-5 ms native waits rounded down to zero ticks.
+CONFIG_FREERTOS_HZ=1000