[OpenWrt-Devel] Supporting proprietary code

[Samba Siva Karthik Bollam]

Hi James
   This is what I have done

1: Created a folder [all intel platform specific modules went in to this folder]
	openwrt/intel

2: Added that in to make menuconfig

That gave us the flexibility of showing the proprietary modules inside a separate entry in the menuconfig options. So it was easy to configure and also do source code scans. So I asked if that kind of support built in to openwrt build system would be a nice to have feature.


Karthik Bollam


From: James Hilliard
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 11:54 AM
To: Samba Siva Karthik Bollam
Cc: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Supporting proprietary code


I think you can just use a custom package feed. That's how I've done it(although I don't use it for proprietary code so much as out of tree packages).

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Samba Siva Karthik Bollam <sambabollam at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi
   I worked with Qualcomm and Intel on their networking chipsets and they are using openwrt on their systems. But one thing I noticed is unlike Android where they support adding proprietary source code in the build system, openwrt is not so flexible. 
 
Is there any plans for openwrt to add a folder inside openwrt build system where companies can add their source code and its automatically included in the build environment? Having that support will make it easy to adopt openwrt on many chipsets.
 
Karthik Bollam

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