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+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/openbmc/u-boot"
+SECTION = "bootloaders"
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Licenses/README;md5=a2c678cfd4a4d97135585cad908541c6"
+PE = "1"
+
+# We use the revision in order to avoid having to fetch it from the
+# repo during parse
+SRCREV = "7fb88a88d08c19b0e6f88c0a484ab001a4476a27"
+
+UBRANCH = "v2016.07-aspeed-openbmc"
+SRC_URI = "git://git@github.com/openbmc/u-boot.git;branch=${UBRANCH};protocol=https"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+PV = "v2016.07+git${SRCPV}"