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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p>Hi James</p><p> This is what I have done</p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>1: Created a folder [all intel platform specific modules went in to this folder]</p><p> <span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>openwrt/intel</span></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>2: Added that in to make menuconfig</p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>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.</p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Karthik Bollam</p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p style='border:none;padding:0in'><br><b>From: </b>James Hilliard<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 14, 2015 11:54 AM<br><b>To: </b>Samba Siva Karthik Bollam<br><b>Cc: </b>openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Supporting proprietary code</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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).</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Samba Siva Karthik Bollam <<a href="mailto:sambabollam@hotmail.com" target="_blank">sambabollam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p>Hi<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p> 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. </p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>Karthik Bollam<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br>_______________________________________________<br>openwrt-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org">openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>