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+BR2_powerpc64le=y
+BR2_powerpc_power8=y
+BR2_OPENPOWER_PLATFORM=y
+
+BR2_BINUTILS_EXTRA_CONFIG_OPTIONS="--enable-targets=powerpc64-linux"
+BR2_EXTRA_GCC_CONFIG_OPTIONS="--enable-targets=powerpc64-linux"
+BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y
+BR2_GLIBC_VERSION_2_23=y
+
+# No HostBoot, OCC, or PNOR required
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOSTBOOT=n
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOSTBOOT_BINARIES=n
+
+BR2_OPENPOWER_CONFIG_NAME="openpower-firenze"
+
+BR2_PACKAGE_OCC=n
+
+BR2_PACKAGE_OPENPOWER_PNOR=n
+
+# no cappucode either
+BR2_PACKAGE_CAPP_UCODE=n
+
+BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="skiroot"
+
+# skiboot will be built but we don't need embedded payload
+BR2_PACKAGE_SKIBOOT=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_SKIBOOT_EMBED_PAYLOAD=n
+
+# petitboot requirements
+BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_PURGE=y
+BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_WHITELIST="C de en es fr it ja ko pt_BR ru zh_CN zh_TW"
+BR2_GENERATE_LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8 es_ES.UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8 ko_KR.UTF-8 pt_BR.UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8 zh_CN.UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8"
+BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_EUDEV=y
+BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="hvc0"
+BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY="../openpower/overlay"
+BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE="../openpower/device_table.txt"
+BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT="../openpower/scripts/fixup-target-var"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="4.4.14"
+BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_4_4=y
+BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_26_X=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH="$(BR2_EXTERNAL)/linux"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="$(BR2_EXTERNAL)/configs/linux/skiroot_defconfig"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_ZIMAGE_EPAPR=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_BNX2X=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_CXGB4_T4=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_I2C_TOOLS=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES_WCHAR=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_DROPBEAR=y
+# BR2_PACKAGE_DROPBEAR_SERVER is not set
+BR2_PACKAGE_ETHTOOL=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_NETCAT=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_RSYNC=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_PETITBOOT=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_PETITBOOT_MTD=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_IPMITOOL=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_MDADM=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_XZ=y
+# do not include rootfs in zImage
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS=n
+BR2_PACKAGE_LOADKEYS=y