Introducing the Phosphor OpenBMC OE layer
-Codifies the IBM vision for an OpenBMC build system.
-Structured around a core DBUS API architecture.
-Provides implementation flexibility within that architecture.
-Provides sample qemuarm BSP layer.
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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}/common/recipes-*/*/*.bb \
+ ${LAYERDIR}/common/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend"
+
+BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "obmc-phosphor"
+BBFILE_PATTERN_obmc-phosphor = "^${LAYERDIR}/"
+LAYERVERSION_obmc-phosphor = "1"
+
+# Provide a variable that points the base of the phosphor layer.
+PHOSPHORBASE = '${@os.path.normpath("${LAYERDIR}/")}'