diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 0dbe188a8c..3b2f04aa0b 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1170,6 +1170,7 @@ menu "Hardware handling"
 	source "package/libsigrok/Config.in"
 	source "package/libsigrokdecode/Config.in"
 	source "package/libsoc/Config.in"
+	source "package/libss7/Config.in"
 	source "package/libusb/Config.in"
 	source "package/libusb-compat/Config.in"
 	source "package/libusbgx/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/libss7/Config.in b/package/libss7/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b99c578182
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libss7/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSS7
+	bool "libss7"
+	depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_DAHDI_LINUX
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_DAHDI_TOOLS
+	help
+	  libss7 is an open source library that encapsulates the
+	  protocols used to communicate using Signaling System 7
+	  over ISDN (T1, E1).
+
+	  http://www.asterisk.org/downloads/libss7
+
+comment "libss7 needs a kernel to be built"
+	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
+
+comment "libss7 needs a toolchain w/ threads"
+	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
diff --git a/package/libss7/libss7.hash b/package/libss7/libss7.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e1d6635db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libss7/libss7.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Hashes from http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libss7/releases/
+sha1    7112a0717293fc273d5d488e1387ad28abe4e9b3  libss7-2.0.0.tar.gz
+sha256  5af00853cfb2bc6bcf050947804db132ae6872db0cd2ab24b5378828f78eda52  libss7-2.0.0.tar.gz
+
+# License file, locally calculated
+sha256  fa5fc1d1eec39532ea517518eeefd7b6e3c14341a55e5880a0e2a49eee47a5b7  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/libss7/libss7.mk b/package/libss7/libss7.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..541505b264
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libss7/libss7.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# libss7
+#
+################################################################################
+
+LIBSS7_VERSION = 2.0.0
+LIBSS7_SITE = http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libss7/releases
+
+LIBSS7_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
+LIBSS7_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+LIBSS7_DEPENDENCIES = dahdi-linux dahdi-tools
+LIBSS7_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+
+# The Makefile default rule will always try to generate both libraries.
+# So we need to explicitly build only what we can.
+ifneq ($(BR2_SHARED_LIBS),y)
+LIBSS7_LIBS = libss7.a
+define LIBSS7_INSTALL_A
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 $(@D)/libss7.a $(1)/usr/lib/libss7.a
+endef
+endif
+
+ifneq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
+LIBSS7_LIBS += libss7.so.2.0
+define LIBSS7_INSTALL_SO
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 $(@D)/libss7.so.2.0 $(1)/usr/lib/libss7.so.2.0
+	ln -sf libss7.so.2.0 $(1)/usr/lib/libss7.so
+endef
+endif
+
+# The Makefile erroneously looks for host headers to decide what utilities
+# to build, and thus misses the test utilities. So we explicitly build them
+# as they can be useful to validate that the hardware does work.
+LIBSS7_UTILS = parser_debug ss7test ss7linktest
+
+define LIBSS7_BUILD_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) -C $(@D) \
+		$(LIBSS7_LIBS) $(LIBSS7_UTILS)
+endef
+
+define LIBSS7_INSTALL_STAGING_CMDS
+	$(call LIBSS7_INSTALL_A,$(STAGING_DIR))
+	$(call LIBSS7_INSTALL_SO,$(STAGING_DIR))
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 $(@D)/libss7.h $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/libss7.h
+endef
+
+define LIBSS7_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	$(foreach u,$(LIBSS7_UTILS),\
+		$(INSTALL) -D -m 0755 $(@D)/$(u) $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/sbin/$(u)$(sep))
+	$(call LIBSS7_INSTALL_SO,$(TARGET_DIR))
+endef
+
+$(eval $(generic-package))