diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/bblayers.conf.sample b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/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-witherspoon \
+  "
+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-witherspoon \
+  "
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/conf-notes.txt b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/conf-notes.txt
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+++ b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/conf-notes.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Common targets are:
+     obmc-phosphor-image
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/distro/openbmc-witherspoon.conf b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/distro/openbmc-witherspoon.conf
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/distro/openbmc-witherspoon.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+require conf/distro/include/phosphor-base.inc
+require conf/distro/include/phosphor-ubi.inc
+require conf/distro/include/openpower-mrw.inc
+require conf/distro/include/openpower-ubi.inc
+require conf/distro/include/openpower-distrovars.inc
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/layer.conf b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/layer.conf
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+++ b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/layer.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# We have a conf and classes directory, add to BBPATH
+BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}"
+
+# We have recipes-* directories, add to BBFILES
+BBFILES += "${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb \
+            ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend"
+
+BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "witherspoon"
+BBFILE_PATTERN_witherspoon = ""
+LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_witherspoon = "sumo"
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/local.conf.sample b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/local.conf.sample
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+++ b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/local.conf.sample
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+MACHINE ??= "witherspoon"
+DISTRO ?= "openbmc-witherspoon"
+PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm"
+SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS_append ?= " *"
+EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"
+USER_CLASSES ?= "buildstats image-mklibs image-prelink"
+PATCHRESOLVE = "noop"
+BB_DISKMON_DIRS = "\
+    STOPTASKS,${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,${SSTATE_DIR},100M,1K \
+    ABORT,/tmp,10M,1K"
+CONF_VERSION = "1"
+INHERIT += "extrausers"
+EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = " \
+  usermod -p '\$1\$UGMqyqdG\$FZiylVFmRRfl9Z0Ue8G7e/' root; \
+  "
diff --git a/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
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+++ b/meta-ibm/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
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+KMACHINE = "aspeed"
+KERNEL_DEVICETREE = "${KMACHINE}-bmc-opp-${MACHINE}.dtb"
+KERNEL_FEATURES_append = " phosphor-wdt-on-panic"
+
+UBOOT_MACHINE = "ast_g5_ncsi_config"
+
+OBMC_POWER_SUPPLY_INSTANCES = "0 1"
+
+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/witherspoon-xml"
+PHOSPHOR_MRW_REV = "6ca015dbd3e1e9d5206f9ec13ec9db2d8965e181"
+
+# Inhibit phosphor-hwmon-config-mrw
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_phosphor-hwmon-config_df-mrw = ""
+
+# Pick up the Witherspoon-specific IPMI configuration
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_ipmi-config = "witherspoon-ipmi-config"
+
+# Inhibit phosphor-fan-presence-mrw-native
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-fan-presence-config_df-mrw = \
+    "phosphor-fan-presence-config-native"
+
+# Inhibit phosphor-fan-control-fan-config-mrw-native
+PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-fan-control-fan-config_df-mrw = \
+    "phosphor-fan-control-fan-config-native"
+
+PREFERRED_RPROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-ipmi-config = "witherspoon-ipmi-config"