[Solved] Adding Touchscreen driver to kernel

[jrue000]

Hi, I bought this JBtek 3.5" touchscreen for my Pi. I think the device was designed for raspbian, but i'm hoping to get it working on Arch. I've already compiled a program that came with it, but want to get the touchscreen working.

The instructions say it requires ads7846 driver:

\linux-rpi-3.6.y\drivers\input\touchscreen\ads7846.c

Which is located on GitHub.

Question is how do I compile this and include this driver into my Pi?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'uname -r
3.12.25-1-ARCH')
I'm completely stuck now. Any advice on adding drivers?

I'm a bit new to kernels and modules. I've experimented with a few things, but I'm not even sure I'm on the right track. I tried compiling with this code:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'TARGET := ads7846
WARN := -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
INCLUDE := -isystem /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include
CFLAGS := -O2 -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ ${WARN} ${INCLUDE}
CC := gcc

${TARGET}.o: ${TARGET}.c

.PHONY: clean

clean:
rm -rf ${TARGET}.o')

but I get a compiler error:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:103:30: fatal error: include/linux/linux/compiler-gcc4.h: Too many levels of symbolic links')

Thanks in advance.

[moonman]

I've added the driver to linux-raspberrypi-latest. It will be in repos shortly ( version 3.16.0-2)

[jrue000]

Wow, this is fantastic. Thank you!