diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf b/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
index 0b17762..1ccd1cf 100644
--- a/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
+++ b/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 # Inhibit phosphor-hwmon-config-mrw
 VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_phosphor-hwmon-config_df-mrw = ""
 
+# Pick up the Witherspoon-specific IPMI configuration
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_ipmi-config = "witherspoon-ipmi-config"
+
 # Inhibit phosphor-fan-presence-mrw-native
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-fan-presence-config_df-mrw = \
     "phosphor-fan-presence-config-native"
@@ -26,3 +29,5 @@
 # Inhibit phosphor-fan-control-fan-config-mrw-native
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-fan-control-fan-config_df-mrw = \
     "phosphor-fan-control-fan-config-native"
+
+PREFERRED_RPROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-ipmi-config = "witherspoon-ipmi-config"
diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host.bbappend b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host.bbappend
index 27678bf..748fa73 100644
--- a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host.bbappend
+++ b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host.bbappend
@@ -1,49 +1,5 @@
 FILESEXTRAPATHS_append_witherspoon := ":${THISDIR}/${PN}"
-SRC_URI_append_witherspoon = " file://occ_sensors.hardcoded.yaml \
-                               file://dev_id.json \
-                               file://dcmi_sensors.json \
-                               file://power_reading.json \
-                               file://hwmon_sensors.hardcoded.yaml \
-                               file://cipher_list.json \
-                             "
-inherit image_version
-
-# Calculate the auxiliary firmware revision to be updated in the dev_id.json
-# file. It is calculated from the VERSION_ID field which currently has two
-# formats. The revision field is 4 bytes, the first two bytes represent the
-# count of commits from the tagging and next two bytes represent the version.
-# Both fields are represented in BCD encoded format, so 9999 is the maximum
-# value both fields can take. With the format "v2.1-216-ga78ace8", Petitboot
-# would display the firmware revision as "Firmware version: 2.01.02160000",
-# "0216" is count and the revision is "0000". With the format
-# "ibm-v2.0-10-r41-0-gd0c319e" Petitboot would display the firmware revision
-# as "Firmware version: 2.00.00100041", "0010" is count and the revision
-# is "0041".
-
-python do_populate_aux_version() {
-        import json
-        import re
-        version_id = do_get_version(d)
-
-        # count from the commit version
-        count = re.findall("-(\d{1,4})-", version_id)
-
-        release = re.findall("-r(\d{1,4})", version_id)
-        if release:
-            auxVer = count[0] + "{0:0>4}".format(release[0])
-        else:
-            auxVer = count[0] + "0000"
-
-        # Update dev_id.json with the auxiliary firmware revision
-        workdir = d.getVar('WORKDIR', True)
-        file = os.path.join(workdir, 'dev_id.json')
-
-        with open(file, "r+") as jsonFile:
-            data = json.load(jsonFile)
-            jsonFile.seek(0)
-            jsonFile.truncate()
-            data["aux"] = int(auxVer, 16)
-            json.dump(data, jsonFile)
-}
-
-addtask populate_aux_version after do_configure before do_compile
+SRC_URI_append_witherspoon = " \
+	file://occ_sensors.hardcoded.yaml \
+	file://hwmon_sensors.hardcoded.yaml \
+	"
diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config.bb b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ab47c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+SUMMARY = "Witherspoon IPMI daemon configuration"
+PR = "r1"
+
+inherit obmc-phosphor-license
+inherit allarch
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+    file://cipher_list.json \
+    file://dcmi_cap.json \
+    file://dcmi_sensors.json \
+    file://dev_id.json \
+    file://power_reading.json \
+    "
+
+FILES_${PN} = " \
+    ${datadir}/ipmi-providers/cipher_list.json \
+    ${datadir}/ipmi-providers/dcmi_cap.json \
+    ${datadir}/ipmi-providers/dcmi_sensors.json \
+    ${datadir}/ipmi-providers/dev_id.json \
+    ${datadir}/ipmi-providers/power_reading.json \
+    "
+
+do_fetch[noexec] = "1"
+do_configure[noexec] = "1"
+do_compile[noexec] = "1"
+
+# Calculate the auxiliary firmware revision to be updated in the dev_id.json
+# file. It is calculated from the VERSION_ID field which currently has two
+# formats. The revision field is 4 bytes, the first two bytes represent the
+# count of commits from the tagging and next two bytes represent the version.
+# Both fields are represented in BCD encoded format, so 9999 is the maximum
+# value both fields can take. With the format "v2.1-216-ga78ace8", Petitboot
+# would display the firmware revision as "Firmware version: 2.01.02160000",
+# "0216" is count and the revision is "0000". With the format
+# "ibm-v2.0-10-r41-0-gd0c319e" Petitboot would display the firmware revision
+# as "Firmware version: 2.00.00100041", "0010" is count and the revision
+# is "0041".
+
+inherit image_version
+
+do_patch[depends] = "os-release:do_populate_sysroot"
+
+python do_patch() {
+    import json
+    import re
+    from shutil import copyfile
+    version_id = do_get_version(d)
+
+    # count from the commit version
+    count = re.findall("-(\d{1,4})-", version_id)
+
+    release = re.findall("-r(\d{1,4})", version_id)
+    if release:
+        auxVer = count[0] + "{0:0>4}".format(release[0])
+    else:
+        auxVer = count[0] + "0000"
+
+    workdir = d.getVar('WORKDIR', True)
+    file = os.path.join(workdir, 'dev_id.json')
+
+    # Update dev_id.json with the auxiliary firmware revision
+    with open(file, "r+") as jsonFile:
+        data = json.load(jsonFile)
+        jsonFile.seek(0)
+        jsonFile.truncate()
+        data["aux"] = int(auxVer, 16)
+        json.dump(data, jsonFile)
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}${datadir}/ipmi-providers
+    install -m 0644 -D ${WORKDIR}/cipher_list.json \
+        ${D}${datadir}/ipmi-providers/cipher_list.json
+    install -m 0644 -D ${WORKDIR}/dcmi_cap.json \
+        ${D}${datadir}/ipmi-providers/dcmi_cap.json
+    install -m 0644 -D ${WORKDIR}/dcmi_sensors.json \
+        ${D}${datadir}/ipmi-providers/dcmi_sensors.json
+    install -m 0644 -D ${WORKDIR}/dev_id.json \
+        ${D}${datadir}/ipmi-providers/dev_id.json
+    install -m 0644 -D ${WORKDIR}/power_reading.json \
+        ${D}${datadir}/ipmi-providers/power_reading.json
+}
diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/cipher_list.json b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/cipher_list.json
similarity index 100%
rename from meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/cipher_list.json
rename to meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/cipher_list.json
diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/dcmi_cap.json b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/dcmi_cap.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d88320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/dcmi_cap.json
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{
+    "PowerManagement": 1,
+    "OOBSecondaryLan": 0,
+    "SerialTMODE": 0,
+    "InBandSystemInterfaceChannel": 1,
+    "SELAutoRollOver": 1,
+    "FlushEntireSELUponRollOver": 0,
+    "RecordLevelSELFlushUponRollOver": 0,
+    "NumberOfSELEntries": 200,
+    "TempMonitoringSamplingFreq":0,
+    "PowerMgmtDeviceSlaveAddress": 0,
+    "BMCChannelNumber": 0,
+    "DeviceRivision": 0,
+    "MandatoryPrimaryLanOOBSupport": 1,
+    "OptionalSecondaryLanOOBSupport": 255,
+    "OptionalSerialOOBMTMODECapability": 255
+}
diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/dcmi_sensors.json b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/dcmi_sensors.json
similarity index 100%
rename from meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/dcmi_sensors.json
rename to meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/dcmi_sensors.json
diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/dev_id.json b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/dev_id.json
similarity index 100%
rename from meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/dev_id.json
rename to meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/dev_id.json
diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/power_reading.json b/meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/power_reading.json
similarity index 100%
rename from meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/power_reading.json
rename to meta-witherspoon/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/witherspoon-ipmi-config/power_reading.json