I’ve bought an EasyCap DC60 and i’ve found this fantastic driver for it:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/easycapdc60/

Obviously they aren’t available for our sheevaplug so i’m looking through the web on how to compile it,finally I was able to do it, this is the howto.

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I’ve bought an EasyCap DC60 and i’ve found this fantastic driver for it:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/easycapdc60/

Obviously they aren’t available for our sheevaplug so i’m looking through the web on how to compile it,finally I was able to do it, this is the howto.

We suppose that sheevaplug is already runnning with a http://sheeva.with-linux.com/sheeva kernel (in this example 2.6.33.2).
All the operations described here are executed on a standard i686 linux pc (debian).

We need a cross-compiler, so go to this page and download the latest arm-XXXXXX-arm-none-eabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2:
http://www.codesourcery.com/downloads/public/public/gnu_toolchain/arm-none-eabi
(in this example we use 2009q3-68)

First of all we need packages for cross-compile it

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.codesourcery.com/downloads/public/public/gnu_toolchain/arm-none-eabi/arm-2009q3-68-arm-none-eabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
tar xzvf arm-2009q3-68-arm-none-eabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
apt-get install build-essential

Then download the standard kernel from kernel.org (nowadays marvell patch is included in the mainline kernel tree), and apply the config from http://sheeva.with-linux.com

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.33.2.tar.bz2
tar xvf linux-2.6.33.2.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.33.2
wget http://sheeva.with-linux.com/sheeva/2.6.33.2/sheeva-2.6.33.2.config
cp sheeva-2.6.33.2.config .config
make ARCH=arm oldconfig

Now we can compile it, if you wouldn’t waste time you can stop it after the first “CC …” lines, when it has already done “HOSTCC/scripts …“, at this time it has already generated header needed by us. If you want you can also compile it all (better).

make -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=../arm-2009q3/bin/arm-none-eabi-

In this example we try to compile easycap driver, but you can adapt it to any external modules:

cd /usr/src
wget “http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/easycapdc60/easycap_dc60.0.7.1.tar.gz?use_mirror=netcologne”
cd easycap_dc60.0.7.1
make clean

Edit src/MakeFile (vi src/Makefile) and replace KERNELDIR line with this:

KERNELDIR ?= /usr/src/linux-2.6.33.2

and now compile it:

make -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=/usr/src/arm-2009q3/bin/arm-none-eabi-

All done!

Login to your sheevaplug and copy the new kernel mod in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video

scp 192.168.1.220:/usr/src/easycap_dc60.0.7.1/src/easycap.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video
depmod -a

try to insmod it and enjoy