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authorJason M. Bills <jason.m.bills@linux.intel.com>2019-10-22 23:54:16 +0300
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-OpenPOWER
-================
+OpenEmbedded/Yocto/OpenBMC BSP layer for OpenPOWER reference platforms
+======================================================================
-meta-openpower is the OpenPOWER layer and should be included in all OpenPOWER
-systems' bblayers.conf. More information on OpenPOWER can be found
+This layer provides support for the BMC firmware on OpenPOWER reference
+platforms, and/or a base upon which to create a BMC firmware implementation on
+any POWER system.
+
+```
+This layer depends on:
+
+URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
+layers: meta
+branch: master
+revision: HEAD
+
+URI: https://github.com/openbmc/meta-phosphor
+branch: master
+revision: HEAD
+
+URI: https://github.com/openbmc/meta-aspeed
+branch: master
+revision: HEAD
+```
+
+More information on OpenPOWER can be found
[here](https://openpowerfoundation.org/).
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+meta-openpower patches are reviewed using the Gerrit instance at
+https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz.
+
+Please submit patches to Gerrit. More information on using Gerrit can be found
+[here](https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#submitting-changes-via-gerrit-server).
+https://github.com/openbmc/meta-openpower is a hosting mirror only and GitHub
+pull requests are not monitored and will not be accepted.
+
+Patch checklist. Please ensure patches adhere to the following guidelines:
+
+ - meta-openpower uses the [OE style
+ guidelines](https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Styleguide).
+ - follow [the seven rules of a great git commit
+ message](https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#seven-rules)
+
+For questions or help please come join us on the [mailing
+list](https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/openbmc) or in
+[IRC](irc://freenode.net/openbmc).