From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 35B12E00801; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:09:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [147.11.146.13 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail1.windriver.com (mail1.windriver.com [147.11.146.13]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C23E00746 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ALA-HCB.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hcb.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.41]) by mail1.windriver.com (8.14.9/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s7K296DC000595 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.local (128.224.21.169) by ALA-HCB.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.174.1; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:09:05 -0700 Message-ID: <53F40306.2080500@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:08:06 -0400 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Tapp , Yocto Project References: <4EAABF91-29AE-4B7D-9FEE-07C87F37197D@keylevel.com> In-Reply-To: <4EAABF91-29AE-4B7D-9FEE-07C87F37197D@keylevel.com> Subject: Re: Kernel driver for Turbosight TBS6285 DVB card X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:09:27 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2014-08-19, 5:26 PM, Chris Tapp wrote: > I need to include the kernel driver for the Turbosight TBS6285 DVB card in an image. > > The official bundle at http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/common/tbs-linux-drivers_v140707.zip includes the drivers and a load of other "stuff" (e.g. a full V4L build). > > LinuxTV.org have the drivers extracted into a .tar.bz2 at (e.g.) http://linuxtv.org/downloads/drivers/linux-media-LATEST.tar.bz2, so I plan to use this as the download source. > > So far I have a recipe which downloads from this URL and extracts the files into the work area and ${WORKAREA}/drivers/media includes a Makefile and Kconfig. > > I've looked at the Yocto documentation, but this doesn't seem to be a good match for the "Out of tree" kernel module case. Hmm. At a glance, I'd say that it does sound like a typical out of tree module build. Did you try adopting the meta-skeleton hello-mod recipe and point it at that source directory ? Bruce > > How should I proceed from here? Is there another driver I can use as a starting point? > > -- > > Chris Tapp > opensource@keylevel.com > www.keylevel.com > > > >