I have an AM335X TI Development board which can be found here. I believe it is based on a Texas Instruments AM335X CPU module.
I am using Buildroot to build the Filesystem for this board and I need to use USB-Serial converters. I know that FTDI USB-Serial converters are compatible with this board, however I want to use the USB-Serial converters using the Prolific PL2303 chipset.
In the buildroot directories is the source code for the PL2303 drivers "pl2303.h" and "pl2303.c". How could I compile a kernel module for this AM335x board for my specific architecture, even better yet, use buildroot to compile the pl2303.h and pl2303.c source files to include them in my Filesystem?
The PL2303 driver is in the mainline Linux kernel, so it's very simple:
make linux-menuconfig
The just enable USB_SERIAL_PL2303 (USB Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver). It's under the Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB Serial Converter support menu, where you can easily find it using the menuconfig search feature.