diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/bblayers.conf.sample b/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/bblayers.conf.sample
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+# LAYER_CONF_VERSION is increased each time build/conf/bblayers.conf
+# changes incompatibly
+LCONF_VERSION = "8"
+
+BBPATH = "${TOPDIR}"
+BBFILES ?= ""
+
+BBLAYERS ?= " \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-poky \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-networking \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-perl \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-python \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-webserver \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-phosphor \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-aspeed \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openpower \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-ibm \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-ibm/meta-romulus \
+  "
+BBLAYERS_NON_REMOVABLE ?= " \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-poky \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-networking \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-perl \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-python \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openembedded/meta-webserver \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-phosphor \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-aspeed \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-openpower \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-ibm \
+  ##OEROOT##/meta-ibm/meta-romulus \
+  "
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/conf-notes.txt b/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/conf-notes.txt
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+Common targets are:
+     obmc-phosphor-image
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/layer.conf b/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/layer.conf
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+# We have a conf and classes directory, add to BBPATH
+BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}"
+
+# We have recipes-* directories, add to BBFILES
+BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb \
+            ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend"
+
+BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "romulus"
+BBFILE_PATTERN_romulus = ""
+LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_romulus = "sumo"
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/local.conf.sample b/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/local.conf.sample
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+#
+# This file is your local configuration file and is where all local user settings
+# are placed. The comments in this file give some guide to the options a new user
+# to the system might want to change but pretty much any configuration option can
+# be set in this file.
+#
+# Lines starting with the '#' character are commented out and in some cases the
+# default values are provided as comments to show people example syntax. Enabling
+# the option is a question of removing the # character and making any change to the
+# variable as required.
+
+#
+# Machine Selection
+#
+MACHINE ??= "romulus"
+
+#
+# Where to place downloads
+#
+# During a first build the system will download many different source code tarballs
+# from various upstream projects. This can take a while, particularly if your network
+# connection is slow. These are all stored in DL_DIR. When wiping and rebuilding you
+# can preserve this directory to speed up this part of subsequent builds. This directory
+# is safe to share between multiple builds on the same machine too.
+#
+# The default is a downloads directory under TOPDIR which is the build directory.
+#
+#DL_DIR ?= "${TOPDIR}/downloads"
+
+#
+# Where to place shared-state files
+#
+# BitBake has the capability to accelerate builds based on previously built output.
+# This is done using "shared state" files which can be thought of as cache objects
+# and this option determines where those files are placed.
+#
+# You can wipe out TMPDIR leaving this directory intact and the build would regenerate
+# from these files if no changes were made to the configuration. If changes were made
+# to the configuration, only shared state files where the state was still valid would
+# be used (done using checksums).
+#
+# The default is a sstate-cache directory under TOPDIR.
+#
+#SSTATE_DIR ?= "${TOPDIR}/sstate-cache"
+
+#
+# Where to place the build output
+#
+# This option specifies where the bulk of the building work should be done and
+# where BitBake should place its temporary files and output. Keep in mind that
+# this includes the extraction and compilation of many applications and the toolchain
+# which can use Gigabytes of hard disk space.
+#
+# The default is a tmp directory under TOPDIR.
+#
+#TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp"
+
+#
+# Default policy config
+#
+# The distribution setting controls which policy settings are used as defaults.
+# The default value is fine for general Yocto project use, at least initially.
+# Ultimately when creating custom policy, people will likely end up subclassing
+# these defaults.
+#
+DISTRO ?= "openbmc-openpower"
+# As an example of a subclass there is a "bleeding" edge policy configuration
+# where many versions are set to the absolute latest code from the upstream 
+# source control systems. This is just mentioned here as an example, its not
+# useful to most new users.
+# DISTRO ?= "poky-bleeding"
+
+#
+# Package Management configuration
+#
+# This variable lists which packaging formats to enable. Multiple package backends
+# can be enabled at once and the first item listed in the variable will be used
+# to generate the root filesystems.
+# Options are:
+#  - 'package_deb' for debian style deb files
+#  - 'package_ipk' for ipk files are used by opkg (a debian style embedded package manager)
+#  - 'package_rpm' for rpm style packages
+# E.g.: PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm package_deb package_ipk"
+# We default to rpm:
+PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm"
+
+#
+# SDK/ADT target architecture
+#
+# This variable specifies the architecture to build SDK/ADT items for and means
+# you can build the SDK packages for architectures other than the machine you are
+# running the build on (i.e. building i686 packages on an x86_64 host).
+# Supported values are i686 and x86_64
+#SDKMACHINE ?= "i686"
+
+SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS_append ?= " *"
+
+#
+# Extra image configuration defaults
+#
+# The EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES variable allows extra packages to be added to the generated
+# images. Some of these options are added to certain image types automatically. The
+# variable can contain the following options:
+#  "dbg-pkgs"       - add -dbg packages for all installed packages
+#                     (adds symbol information for debugging/profiling)
+#  "dev-pkgs"       - add -dev packages for all installed packages
+#                     (useful if you want to develop against libs in the image)
+#  "ptest-pkgs"     - add -ptest packages for all ptest-enabled packages
+#                     (useful if you want to run the package test suites)
+#  "tools-sdk"      - add development tools (gcc, make, pkgconfig etc.)
+#  "tools-debug"    - add debugging tools (gdb, strace)
+#  "eclipse-debug"  - add Eclipse remote debugging support
+#  "tools-profile"  - add profiling tools (oprofile, exmap, lttng, valgrind)
+#  "tools-testapps" - add useful testing tools (ts_print, aplay, arecord etc.)
+#  "debug-tweaks"   - make an image suitable for development
+#                     e.g. ssh root access has a blank password
+# There are other application targets that can be used here too, see
+# meta/classes/image.bbclass and meta/classes/core-image.bbclass for more details.
+# We default to enabling the debugging tweaks.
+EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"
+
+#
+# Additional image features
+#
+# The following is a list of additional classes to use when building images which
+# enable extra features. Some available options which can be included in this variable
+# are:
+#   - 'buildstats' collect build statistics
+#   - 'image-mklibs' to reduce shared library files size for an image
+#   - 'image-prelink' in order to prelink the filesystem image
+#   - 'image-swab' to perform host system intrusion detection
+# NOTE: if listing mklibs & prelink both, then make sure mklibs is before prelink
+# NOTE: mklibs also needs to be explicitly enabled for a given image, see local.conf.extended
+USER_CLASSES ?= "buildstats image-mklibs image-prelink"
+
+#
+# Runtime testing of images
+#
+# The build system can test booting virtual machine images under qemu (an emulator)
+# after any root filesystems are created and run tests against those images. To
+# enable this uncomment this line. See classes/testimage(-auto).bbclass for
+# further details.
+#TEST_IMAGE = "1"
+#
+# Interactive shell configuration
+#
+# Under certain circumstances the system may need input from you and to do this it
+# can launch an interactive shell. It needs to do this since the build is
+# multithreaded and needs to be able to handle the case where more than one parallel
+# process may require the user's attention. The default is iterate over the available
+# terminal types to find one that works.
+#
+# Examples of the occasions this may happen are when resolving patches which cannot
+# be applied, to use the devshell or the kernel menuconfig
+#
+# Supported values are auto, gnome, xfce, rxvt, screen, konsole (KDE 3.x only), none
+# Note: currently, Konsole support only works for KDE 3.x due to the way
+# newer Konsole versions behave
+#OE_TERMINAL = "auto"
+# By default disable interactive patch resolution (tasks will just fail instead):
+PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"
+
+#
+# Disk Space Monitoring during the build
+#
+# Monitor the disk space during the build. If there is less that 1GB of space or less
+# than 100K inodes in any key build location (TMPDIR, DL_DIR, SSTATE_DIR), gracefully
+# shutdown the build. If there is less that 100MB or 1K inodes, perform a hard abort
+# of the build. The reason for this is that running completely out of space can corrupt
+# files and damages the build in ways which may not be easily recoverable.
+# It's necessary to monitor /tmp, if there is no space left the build will fail
+# with very exotic errors.
+BB_DISKMON_DIRS = "\
+    STOPTASKS,${TMPDIR},1G,100K \
+    STOPTASKS,${DL_DIR},1G,100K \
+    STOPTASKS,${SSTATE_DIR},1G,100K \
+    STOPTASKS,/tmp,100M,100K \
+    ABORT,${TMPDIR},100M,1K \
+    ABORT,${DL_DIR},100M,1K \
+    ABORT,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K \
+    ABORT,/tmp,10M,1K"
+
+#
+# Shared-state files from other locations
+#
+# As mentioned above, shared state files are prebuilt cache data objects which can
+# used to accelerate build time. This variable can be used to configure the system
+# to search other mirror locations for these objects before it builds the data itself.
+#
+# This can be a filesystem directory, or a remote url such as http or ftp. These
+# would contain the sstate-cache results from previous builds (possibly from other
+# machines). This variable works like fetcher MIRRORS/PREMIRRORS and points to the
+# cache locations to check for the shared objects.
+# NOTE: if the mirror uses the same structure as SSTATE_DIR, you need to add PATH
+# at the end as shown in the examples below. This will be substituted with the
+# correct path within the directory structure.
+#SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "\
+#file://.* http://someserver.tld/share/sstate/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \n \
+#file://.* file:///some/local/dir/sstate/PATH"
+
+
+#
+# Qemu configuration
+#
+# By default qemu will build with a builtin VNC server where graphical output can be
+# seen. The two lines below enable the SDL backend too. This assumes there is a
+# libsdl library available on your build system.
+#PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-qemu-native = " sdl"
+#PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-nativesdk-qemu = " sdl"
+#ASSUME_PROVIDED += "libsdl-native"
+
+
+# CONF_VERSION is increased each time build/conf/ changes incompatibly and is used to
+# track the version of this file when it was generated. This can safely be ignored if
+# this doesn't mean anything to you.
+CONF_VERSION = "1"
+
+# Set the root password to '0penBmc'
+INHERIT += "extrausers"
+
+EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = " \
+  usermod -p '\$1\$UGMqyqdG\$FZiylVFmRRfl9Z0Ue8G7e/' root; \
+  "
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/machine/romulus.conf b/meta-ibm/meta-romulus/conf/machine/romulus.conf
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+KMACHINE = "aspeed"
+KERNEL_DEVICETREE = "${KMACHINE}-bmc-opp-${MACHINE}.dtb"
+
+UBOOT_MACHINE = "ast_g5_ncsi_config"
+
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/p9-vcs-workaround = ''
+
+require conf/machine/include/ast2500.inc
+require conf/machine/include/obmc-bsp-common.inc
+require conf/machine/include/ibm.inc
+require conf/machine/include/p9.inc
+
+PHOSPHOR_MRW_URI = "git://github.com/open-power/romulus-xml"
+PHOSPHOR_MRW_REV = "14b471fbf37f5fb60261de001df83caf5f96d81f"
+
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-ipmi-fru-inventory = "romulus-ipmi-inventory-map-native"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-led-manager-config-native = "romulus-led-manager-config-native"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-ipmi-fru-read-inventory = "romulus-ipmi-fru-read-inventory-native"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-ipmi-inventory-sel = "romulus-ipmi-inventory-sel-native"
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-logging-callouts = "romulus-phosphor-logging-callouts-native"