Technical Background

Developer Section:

Developer Section:

Repos:

• Git V4L-DVB development repository
• Mercurial V4L-DVB backport repository
• A list of LinuxTV hosted Git development repositories
• A list of LinuxTV hosted Mercurial development repositories
• Current git log
• Maintaining Git trees
• Using a git driver development tree
• Maintaining Mercurial (Hg) trees

Kernel Driver Development:

• Linux kernel development documentation index
• Application Programming Interface (API):
  • Linux Media Infrastructure API
• Drivers:
  • Anatomy of a V4L driver
  • Anatomy of a DVB driver
  • How to add support for a device
  • How to develop drivers for USB based devices
    • General Information Regarding DVB via USB
    • Reverse Engineering USB Webcams
  • Hints for Refactoring Existing Drivers
• Submitting your work:
  • Coding Style
  • Invitation for Code Review
  • How to submit patches
    • Rules for submitting patches
    • Linux Kernel patch submittal checklist
    • Rules for submitting drivers
• Development miscellanea:
  • Bus snooping/sniffing
  • How to extract a firmware
  • The DVB Decoder Challenge
  • TODO - main tasks
  • V4L framework progress
  • Libv4l Progress

Userspace Development:

• V4L2 Userspace Library