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 for the serial binding, the `mctp_serial_read()` function should be invoked
 when the file-descriptor for the serial device has data available.
 
+Integration
+-----------
+
+The libmctp code is intended to be integrated into other codebases by two
+methods:
+
+ 1. as a simple library (`libmctp.a`), which can be compiled separately
+    and linked into the containing project
+
+ 2. as a set of sources to be included into the containing project (either
+    imported, or as a git subtree/submodule)
+
+For (1), you can use the top-level makefile to produce `libmtcp.a`.
+
+For (2), the `Makefile.inc` file provides the minimum set of dependencies to
+either build libmctp.a, or just the actual object files (`LIBMCTP_OBS`), which
+you can include into your existing make definitions.  You'll want to set
+`LIBMTCP_DIR` to refer to the subdirectory that contains that makefile, so we
+can set the correct paths to sources.
+
+
 Environment configuration
 -------------------------