diff --git a/build/build_board_manager_package.sh b/build/build_board_manager_package.sh
new file mode 100755
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+ver=`git describe --tags`
+outdir=esp8266-$ver
+srcdir=../hardware/esp8266com/esp8266/
+mkdir -p $outdir
+cp -R $srcdir/* $outdir/
+cat $srcdir/platform.txt | \
+gsed 's/runtime.tools.xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc.path={runtime.platform.path}\/tools\/xtensa-lx106-elf//g' | \
+gsed 's/runtime.tools.esptool.path={runtime.platform.path}\/tools//g' | \
+gsed 's/tools.esptool.path={runtime.platform.path}\/tools/tools.esptool.path=\{runtime.tools.esptool.path\}/g' \
+ > $outdir/platform.txt
+
+zip -r $outdir.zip $outdir
+sha=`shasum -a 256 $outdir.zip | cut -f 1 -d ' '`
+size=`/bin/ls -l $outdir.zip | awk '{print $5}'`
+echo Size: $size
+echo SHA-256: $sha
+
+scp $outdir.zip dl:apps/download_files/download/
+
+
+cat << EOF > package_esp8266com_index.json
+{
+  "packages": [ {
+    "name":"esp8266",
+    "maintainer":"ESP8266 Community",
+    "websiteURL":"https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino",
+    "email":"ivan@esp8266.com",
+    "help":{
+      "online":"http://esp8266.com"
+    },
+
+    "platforms": [ {
+      "name":"esp8266",
+      "architecture":"esp8266",
+      "version":"$ver",
+      "category":"ESP8266",
+      "url":"http://arduino.esp8266.com/$outdir.zip",
+      "archiveFileName":"$outdir.zip",
+      "checksum":"SHA-256:$sha",
+      "size":"$size",
+      "help":{
+        "online":"http://esp8266.com"
+      },
+      "boards":[ {
+          "name":"Generic ESP8266 Module"
+        }
+      ],
+      "toolsDependencies":[ {
+        "packager":"esp8266",
+        "name":"esptool",
+        "version":"0.4.3"
+      },
+      {
+        "packager":"esp8266",
+        "name":"xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc",
+        "version":"1.20.0-26-gb404fb9"
+      } ]
+    } ],
+
+    "tools": [ {
+      "name":"esptool",
+      "version":"0.4.3",
+      "systems": [
+        {
+           "host":"i686-mingw32",
+           "url":"https://github.com/igrr/esptool-ck/releases/download/0.4.4/esptool-0.4.4-win32.zip",
+           "archiveFileName":"esptool-0.4.4-win32.zip",
+           "checksum":"SHA-256:bc52165c847b194d8f079add982eae1c4b4466784bff8c8494241de602a003b3",
+           "size":"17262"
+        },
+        {
+           "host":"x86_64-apple-darwin",
+           "url":"https://github.com/igrr/esptool-ck/releases/download/0.4.4/esptool-0.4.4-osx.tar.gz",
+           "archiveFileName":"esptool-0.4.4-osx.tar.gz",
+           "checksum":"SHA-256:bb2a58c3583f9dcb0d3e7611531a0f3a29c21a4a1c442987bb29d07408824dfe",
+           "size":"12145"
+        },
+        {
+           "host":"x86_64-pc-linux-gnu",
+           "url":"https://github.com/igrr/esptool-ck/releases/download/0.4.4/esptool-0.4.4-linux64.tar.gz",
+           "archiveFileName":"esptool-0.4.4-linux64.tar.gz",
+           "checksum":"SHA-256:beedf89db0bdce0bf6034232d86edebcfed0966ff1501545aca9cfbba1f92593",
+           "size":"12513"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "name":"xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc",
+      "version":"1.20.0-26-gb404fb9",
+      "systems": [
+        {
+           "host":"i686-mingw32",
+           "url":"http://arduino.esp8266.com/win32-xtensa-lx106-elf.tar.gz",
+           "archiveFileName":"win32-xtensa-lx106-elf.tar.gz",
+           "checksum":"SHA-256:5e3de7c20007bf13587907ccf026b0e9bc736a99a022ed020c70b834d01ba512",
+           "size":"128052524"
+        },
+        {
+           "host":"x86_64-apple-darwin",
+           "url":"http://arduino.esp8266.com/osx-xtensa-lx106-elf.tar.gz",
+           "archiveFileName":"osx-xtensa-lx106-elf.tar.gz",
+           "checksum":"SHA-256:540be2ca32637584463a4a4d04717f6c79c7355e336b8c3578b0947218cf92b9",
+           "size":"35189446"
+        },
+        {
+           "host":"x86_64-pc-linux-gnu",
+           "url":"http://arduino.esp8266.com/linux64-xtensa-lx106-elf.tar.gz",
+           "archiveFileName":"linux64-xtensa-lx106-elf.tar.gz",
+           "checksum":"SHA-256:46f057fbd8b320889a26167daf325038912096d09940b2a95489db92431473b7",
+           "size":"30262903"
+        }
+      ]
+    } ]
+  } ]
+}
+EOF
+
+scp package_esp8266com_index.json dl:apps/download_files/download
+