[LEDE-DEV] Espressobin mvebu64

[Jonas Gorski]

Hi Nishant,

On 5 January 2018 at 10:48, Nishant Sharma <codemarauder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonas,
>
> On Friday 05 January 2018 02:24 PM, Jonas Gorski wrote:
>  (http://espressobin.net) as described in their wiki at
>>>
>>>
>>> http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Build+From+Source+-+OpenWrt
>>
>>
>> Espressobin/mvebu64 isn't part of the official OpenWrt sources, so you
>> will need to ask them (they seem to have a forum) and we can't really
>> help you here.
>
>
> Thanks for the reply. I am awaiting a reply on their forum, but still wanted
> to ask the community here, if anyone had faced/resolved similar issues.
>
> On a related note, as their kernel sources are available on github under
> GPLv2.0, can we bring it to the OpenWrt sources? I can help with it but
> would need a lot of handholding.

In theory yes, but in practice it will require quite a bit of work,
depending on how much they departed from how OpenWrt expects targets
to be.

First of all you need to find someone who is willing to not only do
the cleanup work, but also to spend time for a while maintaining the
new target, reacting to bug reports and fixing/updating things.
Ideally someone with access to hardware.

The initial porting effort will require converting the target from
using an external kernel tree to a set of patches located at
target/linux/<target>/patches-*, updating the kernel to at least 4.9,
if not 4.14, and converting the image generation part to the new image
code.


Regards
Jonas