[yocto] CyaSSL Yocto Recipe
Chris Conlon
chris at yassl.com
Tue Oct 9 13:26:34 PDT 2012
On Sep 6, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> This looks like an interesting piece of software and a quick read
> through your webpages suggests there may be some interesting
> applications of this within OE which I'd love to explore.
>
> We are however quite careful about what goes into OE-Core and you've
> picked about the worst possible point of the cycle to have this
> discussion (just after feature freeze which was six days ago).
>
> So I certainly think this could make OE-Core but probably not in the 1.3
> release timeframe. I would also want to see some kind of demo that we
> could replace some of our openssl/gnutls usage with this too which so
> far I've not seen. There is discussion in the OE-Core archives about
> making the SSL/TLS provider selectable though so there is certainly
> interest.
>
> So I think this is a good idea, a layer is a great place to start
> experimenting and if its shown to be successful it would make the core.
> We've got to be realistic about the development process and this isn't
> going to happen overnight though (a layer is much easier/faster to start
> with).
As suggested, we have created a yaSSL layer (meta-yassl) which includes a recipe for the CyaSSL embedded SSL library. The layer can be found on GitHub, here:
https://github.com/cconlon/meta-yassl
Any comments or suggestions on improving the layer would be greatly appreciated. Going forward from here, what would make the most sense as a next step?
Thanks,
Chris Conlon
www.yassl.com
chris at yassl.com
Skype: chris_conlon_07
+1 406 209 0601
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