On 07/16/2011 01:15 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hello Alessio, > > On Saturday 16 July 2011 08:01:33 Alessio Sangalli wrote: >> I have a couple of questions about porting a board to OpenWRT: >> >> 1) do you think it can be accepted in the main line OpenWRT git? It >> consists of a patch that is about 2MB when uncompressed as it adds all >> the platform code to the kernel. > > To better answer that question, you should put the patch somewhere, because > of > the mailing-list attachment size limitation. Then we can comment on your > patch > and tell you whether it's acceptable or not.
I'm sorry I forgot to provide the URL I've uploaded it: http://lnx.manoweb.com/openwrt.patch.xz >> 2) on top of that it requires a new Bootloader that I have the sources >> for, but I have not integrated in the OpenWRT. Is it important to have >> it integrated? > > That is really a question for you actually. Do you want OpenWrt to build your > bootloader, or do you want it to be built separately by other means. I could have OpenWRT build it, but I do not see too much "added value" in doind that; I could provide XLoader and U-Boot sources and most importantly binaries on a website; those have to be updated only once, with a flash utility I also have written. >> 3) What about the software packages? In principle it could use binary >> packages from some other target like the kirkwood, but can packages be >> shared across targets? > > Right now, one should be able to share packages having the same ISA/ABI, > however, we do not do that currently. I could compile all the packages myself and host them on my website, and provide an alternate ipkg.conf? bye as _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
