diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf.bb
index 09027dd..b02b832 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf.bb
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf.bb
@@ -7,9 +7,15 @@
 inherit pkgconfig
 
 DEPENDS += "glib-2.0"
+DEPENDS += "cjson"
 
 SKELETON_DIR = "libopenbmc_intf"
 
+SRC_URI += "file://gpio_defs.json"
+
 do_install() {
         oe_runmake install DESTDIR=${D}
+
+        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/obmc/gpio/
+        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/gpio_defs.json ${D}/${sysconfdir}/default/obmc/gpio/
 }
diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf/gpio_defs.json b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf/gpio_defs.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e4ef9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/obmc-libobmc-intf/gpio_defs.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "_comments": "This file should be overridden with one from the machine layer."
+}