Samsung has released the source code for its NX2000 and NX300 cameras as open source. Along with the open source release, Samsung is also providing build instructions for each camera.
You can find the open source downloads here on Samsung’s website.
See the NX2000 build instructions below.
[ BUILD instructions ]
GPL/LGPL software for the Samsung NX2000 Series
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System requirement (Strongly recommended)
* OS: Ubuntu 10.04 or newer
The NX2000 Series has an Embedded Cortex-A9 (800MHz, L1 32KB, L2 256KB) with Neon processor;
the software is normally cross-compiled for that processor.
All of those softwares have to be built with the ARM toolchain gcc.
(arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q1-202) 4.4.1)
* Building Linux kernel and private drivers
* Unpack the nx2000.tar.gz into your home directory
* cd TIZEN/build
* Run “make nx2000_config; make bootloader; make kernel; make firmware”
* Check if TIZEN/build/binary/firmware/nx2000.bin is exist
* Building a package
1. Extract sbs module
* Place sbs.tar.gz into your home directory
* tar xvf sbs.tar.gz
2. Extract sbs-install module
* Place sbs-install.tar.gz into your home directory
* tar xvf sbs-install.tar.gz
3. Build a package
* cd ~/TIZEN/build
* make nx2000_config
* cd ~/TIZEN/packages/<package name>
* sbs -b
4. Install your package
* You can find 3 deb packages ( xxx.deb, xxx-dbg-xxx.deb, xxx-dev-xxx.deb)
Just ignore dbg and dev packages
For more information, refer <package>/debian/control file
* Install package with following command
(e.g.) sbs -et dpkg -i libscl_0.1.0-5_armel.deb
* To apply your package, please run next command in ~/TIZEN/build
– cd ~/TIZEN/build
– make nx2000_config; make bootloader; make kernel; make firmware
last updated: 2013-05-07
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