diff --git a/conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc b/conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc
index 483e92f..9edd238 100644
--- a/conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc
+++ b/conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,84 @@
-require conf/distro/poky.conf
 require conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
 
+# Override these in poky based distros
+POKY_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES = "largefile opengl ptest multiarch wayland vulkan"
+POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = "packagegroup-core-boot"
+POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = "kernel-module-af-packet"
+
+DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += " ${POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS}"
+DISTRO_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += " ${POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}"
+
+POKYQEMUDEPS = "${@bb.utils.contains("INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE", "GPL-3.0", "", "packagegroup-core-device-devel",d)}"
+DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemuarm = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
+DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemuarm64 = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
+DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemumips = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
+DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemuppc = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
+DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemux86 = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
+DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS_append_qemux86-64 = " ${POKYQEMUDEPS}"
+
+TCLIBCAPPEND = ""
+
+QEMU_TARGETS ?= "arm aarch64 i386 mips mipsel mips64 mips64el nios2 ppc x86_64"
+
+PREMIRRORS ??= "\
+bzr://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+cvs://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+git://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+gitsm://.*/.* http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+hg://.*/.*    http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+osc://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+p4://.*/.*    http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+svn://.*/.*   http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n"
+
+MIRRORS =+ "\
+ftp://.*/.*      http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+http://.*/.*     http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n \
+https://.*/.*    http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/ \n"
+
+# The CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URI's are used to test whether we can succesfully
+# fetch from the network (and warn you if not). To disable the test set
+# the variable to be empty.
+# Git example url: git://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-firewall-test;protocol=git;rev=master
+CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS ?= "https://www.example.com/"
+
+SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS ?= " \
+            poky-2.4 \n \
+            poky-2.5 \n \
+            ubuntu-15.04 \n \
+            ubuntu-16.04 \n \
+            ubuntu-16.10 \n \
+            ubuntu-17.04 \n \
+            fedora-26 \n \
+            centos-7 \n \
+            debian-8 \n \
+            debian-9 \n \
+            opensuse-42.1 \n \
+            opensuse-42.2 \n \
+            "
+#
+# OELAYOUT_ABI allows us to notify users when the format of TMPDIR changes in
+# an incompatible way. Such changes should usually be detailed in the commit
+# that breaks the format and have been previously discussed on the mailing list
+# with general agreement from the core team.
+#
+
+OELAYOUT_ABI = "12"
+
+# add poky sanity bbclass
+INHERIT += "poky-sanity"
+
+# QA check settings - a little stricter than the OE-Core defaults
+WARN_TO_ERROR_QA = "already-stripped compile-host-path install-host-path \
+                    installed-vs-shipped ldflags pn-overrides rpaths staticdev \
+                    useless-rpaths"
+WARN_QA_remove = "${WARN_TO_ERROR_QA}"
+ERROR_QA_append = " ${WARN_TO_ERROR_QA}"
+
+require conf/distro/include/poky-world-exclude.inc
+require conf/distro/include/no-static-libs.inc
+require conf/distro/include/yocto-uninative.inc
+INHERIT += "uninative"
+
 DISTRO = "openbmc-phosphor"
 DISTRO_NAME = "Phosphor OpenBMC (Phosphor OpenBMC Project Reference Distro)"
 DISTRO_VERSION = "0.1.0"
@@ -75,3 +153,4 @@
 # compressed to the root filesystem, and probably doesn't
 # make sense on a BMC anyway.
 BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS_pn-obmc-phosphor-image = "udev-hwdb"
+