📦 barneyman / somagic

somagic =======

my rewrite of (currently) the easycap somagic kernel driver, specifically for my rpi

using 3.12.26 Raspbian (debian/wheezy)

The original kernel code was pulled from instructions at https://code.google.com/p/easycap-somagic-linux/wiki/BuildingKernelModule That URL references DIFFERENT source to the kernel source in the easycap-somagic-linux google repository

The intention is to have a stable kernel driver for me to access an STB from my pi

the rpi simply can't keep up currently, i'm using the FSM USB driver and i've overclocked to turbo - i'm going to try exposing lower FPS streams and also have a bash at using the GPU encoder

This is my first leap into linux coding, so, excuse any blatant errors

[(please refer to https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/kernel/building.md for help on getting source/building the kernel)]

the basic steps for building the kernel are

• get the code!
• get the toolset
• configure what/how it's built ( _defconfig)
• build kernel
• build modules
• install them

to get this compiling, two choices

A. to Compile this module only

• get your linux source
• cd linux/drivers/media/usb
• git clone https://github.com/barneyman/somagic.git
• go back to your linux directory
• make M=drivers/media/usb/somagic modules modules_install

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• edit Kconfig, add the following line in the MEDIAANALOGTV_SUPPORT block source "drivers/media/usb/somagic/Kconfig"
• edit Makefile, add the following in block of similar commands obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI2021) += somagic/
• go back to your linux directory
• make menuconfig

• add SMI2021 module (in device drivers/multimedia support/Media USB Adaptors/Somagic)
• build your kernel and modules

• make

• make modules

• make modules_install

• (and copy the img over)