[yocto] Kernel driver for Turbosight TBS6285 DVB card

[Bruce Ashfield]

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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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

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> How should I proceed from here? Is there another driver I can use as a starting point?
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