Installation Instructions

This repository contains Availink AVL62x1 S/S2/S2X demodulator driver and Airoha AV201x tuner driver for Broadcom ARM based set-top box.

Refer to dvb-frontends-availink and documentation for details related to this code.

Prerequisites

First install Git and the build dependencies:

• Ubuntu package install

sudo apt install git make flex bison libssl-dev gcc gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

• Fedora package install

Comming soon

Getting the Linux kernel

Next get the linux kernel source, which will take some time:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edision-open/edision-kernel/master/edision-kernel-get-latest-source.sh -O - | sh

Enter the following commands to prepare kernel modules compilation:

cd linux-LATEST_KERNEL_SOURCE_VERSION
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- oldconfig modules_prepare

Build and Install driver module

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/edision-open/dvb-frontends-avl62x1.git

Build kernel module:

cd dvb-frontends-avl62x1
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- KDIR=/PATH/TO/linux-LATEST_KERNEL_SOURCE_VERSION

Insert the avl6261.ko kernel module into /lib/modules/LATEST_KERNEL_SOURCE_VERSION/extra/avl6261.ko on your set-top box.

Blindscan

Command line blindscan program is ready.