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+SUMMARY = "Quanta Q71l board wiring"
+DESCRIPTION = "Board wiring information for the Quanta Q71l system."
+PR = "r1"
+
+inherit allarch
+inherit setuptools
+inherit pythonnative
+inherit obmc-phosphor-license
+
+PROVIDES += "virtual/obmc-inventory-data"
+RPROVIDES_${PN} += "virtual-obmc-inventory-data"
+
+DEPENDS += "python"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}"
+SRC_URI += "file://Quanta-q71l.py"
+
+# the following is unnecessary.
+python() {
+	machine = d.getVar('MACHINE', True).capitalize() + '.py'
+	d.setVar('_config_in_skeleton', machine)
+}
+
+do_make_setup() {
+        cp ${S}/${_config_in_skeleton} \
+                ${S}/obmc_system_config.py
+        cat <<EOF > ${S}/setup.py
+from distutils.core import setup
+
+setup(name='${BPN}',
+    version='${PR}',
+    py_modules=['obmc_system_config'],
+    )
+EOF
+}
+
+addtask make_setup after do_patch before do_configure