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+Collection of BSP and distro layers for IBM branded servers.
+
+This repository contains a set of distro policy for IBM branded servers:
+
+conf/
+classes/
+recipes-*/
+
+BSP layer(s) for the following IBM service processors:
+FSP-2: meta-fsp2
+
+BSP layer(s) for the following IBM branded servers:
+Witherspoon: meta-witherspoon
+Z: meta-z
+
+Subsequent description applies to the distro policy for IBM systems only in
+conf, classes, and recipes-*, for description of the BSP layers consult the
+README files there.
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+This layer depends on:
+
+  URI: https://github.com/openbmc/meta-phosphor
+  branch: master