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+inherit pkgconfig cmake
+
+LICENSE = "Proprietary"
+LICFILENAME = "license.txt"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${S}/${LICFILENAME};md5=39ab6ab638f4d1836ba994ec6852de94"
+
+# We should move to an actual SRCREV eventually
+include conf/xilinx/esw-srcrev.inc
+
+EMBEDDEDSW_SRCREV ?= "${AUTOREV}"
+SRCREV = "${EMBEDDEDSW_SRCREV}"
+PV = "${XILINX_RELEASE_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
+EMBEDDEDSW_REPO ?= "git://github.com/xilinx/embeddedsw.git;protocol=https"
+EMBEDDEDSW_BRANCH ?= "master"
+SRC_URI = "${EMBEDDEDSW_REPO};branch=${EMBEDDEDSW_BRANCH}"
+
+SRCREV_FORMAT = "src_decouple"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git/"
+B = "${WORKDIR}/build/"
+OECMAKE_SOURCEPATH = "${S}/${ESW_COMPONENT_SRC}"
+
+SPECFILE_PATH_arm = "${S}/scripts/specs/arm/Xilinx.spec"
+SPECFILE_PATH_aarch64 = "${S}/scripts/specs/arm/Xilinx.spec"
+SPECFILE_PATH_microblaze = "${S}/scripts/specs/microblaze/Xilinx.spec"
+
+ESW_CFLAGS += "-specs=${SPECFILE_PATH}"
+
+inherit ccmake
+
+COMPATIBLE_HOST = ".*-elf"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST_arm = "[^-]*-[^-]*-eabi"
+
+DTBFILE ?= "${RECIPE_SYSROOT}/boot/devicetree/system-top.dtb"
+
+def get_xlnx_cmake_machine(fam, d):
+    cmake_machine = fam
+    if (fam == 'zynqmp'):
+        cmake_machine = 'ZynqMP'
+    elif (fam == 'versal'):
+        cmake_machine = 'Versal'
+    elif (fam == 'zynq'):
+        cmake_machine = 'Zynq'
+    return cmake_machine
+
+def get_xlnx_cmake_processor(tune, machine, d):
+    cmake_processor = tune
+    if tune.startswith('microblaze'):
+        if (machine == 'microblaze-pmu'):
+            cmake_processor = 'pmu_microblaze'
+        elif (machine == 'microblaze-plm'):
+            cmake_processor = 'plm_microblaze'
+        else:
+            cmake_processor = 'microblaze'
+    elif (tune in [ 'cortexr5', 'cortexr5f' ]):
+        cmake_processor = 'cortexr5'
+    elif tune.startswith('cortexa9'):
+        cmake_processor = 'cortexa9'
+    elif (tune in [ 'cortexa53', 'cortexa72-cortexa53' ]):
+        cmake_processor = 'cortexa53'
+    elif tune == 'cortexa72':
+        cmake_processor = 'cortexa72'
+    return cmake_processor
+
+XLNX_CMAKE_MACHINE = "${@get_xlnx_cmake_machine(d.getVar('SOC_FAMILY'), d)}"
+XLNX_CMAKE_PROCESSOR = "${@get_xlnx_cmake_processor(d.getVar('DEFAULTTUNE'), d.getVar('MACHINE'), d)}"
+XLNX_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME ?= "Generic"
+
+cmake_do_generate_toolchain_file_append() {
+    cat >> ${WORKDIR}/toolchain.cmake <<EOF
+    include(CMakeForceCompiler)
+    CMAKE_FORCE_C_COMPILER("${OECMAKE_C_COMPILER}" GNU)
+    CMAKE_FORCE_CXX_COMPILER("${OECMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}" GNU)
+    set( CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR "${XLNX_CMAKE_PROCESSOR}" )
+    set( CMAKE_MACHINE "${XLNX_CMAKE_MACHINE}" )
+    # Will need this in the future to make cmake understand esw variables
+    # set( CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME `echo elf | sed -e 's/^./\u&/' -e 's/^\(Linux\).*/\1/'` )
+    set( CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME "${XLNX_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" )
+EOF
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}${libdir}
+    install -d ${D}${includedir}
+    install -m 0755  ${B}/${ESW_COMPONENT_NAME} ${D}${libdir}
+    install -m 0644  ${B}/include/*.h ${D}${includedir}
+}
+
+CFLAGS_append = " ${ESW_CFLAGS}"
+
+# We need to find the license file, which vaires depending on the component
+# recurse a maximum of x times, could be fancier but it gets complicated since
+# we dont know for certain we are running devtool or just externalsrc
+python(){
+    import os.path
+    if bb.data.inherits_class('externalsrc', d) and d.getVar('EXTERNALSRC'):
+        externalsrc = d.getVar('EXTERNALSRC')
+        lic_file = d.getVar('LIC_FILES_CHKSUM', False)
+        licpath=externalsrc
+        for i in range(5):
+            if os.path.isfile(licpath + '/' + d.getVar('LICFILENAME',True)):
+                lic_file = lic_file.replace('${S}',licpath)
+                d.setVar('LIC_FILES_CHKSUM', lic_file)
+                return
+            licpath=os.path.dirname(licpath)
+        bb.error("Couldn't find license file: %s, within directory %s or his parent directories" % (d.getVar('LICFILENAME',True), externalsrc))
+}