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+# In general this class should only be used by board layers
+# that keep their machine-readable-workbook in the skeleton repository.
+
+inherit allarch
+inherit setuptools
+
+SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/skeleton;subpath=configs"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/configs"
+
+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