Linux drivers development
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This page summarizes all you need to know before starting to develop Linux drivers for your Armadeus board
Contents
Recommended reading before starting
We advise you to read (not necessarly understand ;-) ):
- Linux Device Drivers (3rd edition) book: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
Adding your own drivers
Our custom drivers build is integrated to the Linux build system (kbuild). You can select, in the linux "menuconfig / xconfig" tool, which Armadeus drivers you want to add on your target.
$ make linux26-menuconfig
Here is the way to add custom drivers:
- in armadeus/target/linux/modules/, add a directory for you driver (ex toto/)
- put reference to this directory in the armadeus/target/linux/modules/Makefile and armadeus/target/linux/modules/Kconfig files
- in toto/ put your driver source code and create 2 files, Kconfig and Makefile. (Use armadeus/target/linux/modules/gpio/Makefile & Kconfig as examples.)
To compile all the custom modules, either launch:
$ make -C armadeus/target/linux/modules/
or
$ make linux26
only make linux26 will install the modules in target rootfs image
i.MX register access from driver
To access i.MX registers from your driver, please use the macros defined in:
#include <mach/imx-regs.h>
For example (access to PWM control register):
/* enable the PWM */
PWMC |= PWMC_EN;
Debug
Activate debug messages (from pr_debug() function) on console:
# echo 8 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
