[edk2-redfish-client][PATCH] Initial edk2 redfish client repository

["Nickle Wang" <nicklew@nvidia.com>]

Add required files to initial edk2 redfish client repository.

Signed-off-by: Nickle Wang <nicklew@nvidia.com>
Cc: Abner Chang <abner.chang@amd.com>
Cc: Igor Kulchytskyy <igork@ami.com>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
---
 .gitignore      |  6 +++++
 CONTRIBUTING.md |  3 +++
 LICENSE         | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Maintainers.txt | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 README.md       | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 174 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md
 create mode 100644 LICENSE
 create mode 100644 Maintainers.txt
 create mode 100644 README.md

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+.DS_Store
+*_extdep/
+*.pyc
+__pycache__/
+tags/
+.vscode/
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+# Contributing to EDK Redfish Client
+
+Contributor documentation is maintained on the wiki: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Development-Process
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2021, TianoCore and contributors.  All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-Patent
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
+   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
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+and contributor hereby grants to those receiving rights under this license
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+
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+    shall not apply to any other combinations which include the
+    Contribution.
+
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+
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+
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diff --git a/Maintainers.txt b/Maintainers.txt
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+EDK Redfish Client Maintainers
+==================
+
+This file provides information about the primary maintainers for
+EDK Redfish Client.
+
+In general, you should not privately email the maintainer. You should
+email the edk2-devel list, and Cc the package maintainers and
+reviewers.
+
+If the package maintainer wants to hand over the role to other people,
+the package maintainer should send the patch to update Maintainers.txt
+with new maintainer, and the new maintainer should follow up with
+an Acked-by or a Reviewed-by.
+
+Descriptions of section entries:
+
+  L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area (default is edk2-devel)
+     Patches and questions should be sent to the email list.
+  M: Package Maintainer: Cc address for patches and questions. Responsible
+     for reviewing and pushing package changes to source control.
+  R: Package Reviewer: Cc address for patches and questions. Reviewers help
+     maintainers review code, but don't have push access. A designated Package
+     Reviewer is reasonably familiar with the Package (or some modules
+     thereof), and/or provides testing or regression testing for the Package
+     (or some modules thereof), in certain platforms and environments.
+  F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns.
+     A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
+     F:   MdeModulePkg/   all files in and below MdeModulePkg
+     F:   MdeModulePkg/*  all files in MdeModulePkg, but not below
+     F:   */Pci/*         all files in a directory called Pci, at any depth in
+                          the hierarchy, but not below
+     One pattern per line.  Multiple F: lines per section acceptable.
+
+  Filenames not caught by any F: rule get matched as being located in the top-
+  level directory. (Internally, the script looks for a match called '<default>',
+  so please don't add a file called that in the top-level directory.)
+
+EDK Redfish Client
+------
+L: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/
+T: git - https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-redfish-client.git
+
+RedfishClientPkg: Redfish client related modules
+F: RedfishClientPkg/
+M: Abner Chang <abner.chang@amd.com> [changab]
+M: Nickle Wang <nicklew@nvidia.com> [nicklela]
+R: Igor Kulchytskyy <igork@ami.com> [igorkulchytskyy]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Tianocore Redfish Client
+This repository holds EDKII Redfish client libraries, drivers and applications.
+EDKII Redfish client work with EDKII [RedfishPkg](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/master/RedfishPkg),
+and provides the functionality to support Redfish service hosted by Board Management Controller (BMC) in server.
+Please check [Readme.md](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/RedfishPkg/Readme.md) for the design of
+UEFI Redfish EDK2 implementation.
+
+# License
+The majority of the content in the EDK Redfish Client open source project uses a
+[BSD-2-Clause Plus Patent License](LICENSE).
+
+# Maintainers
+
+See [Maintainers.txt](Maintainers.txt).
+
+# Contributing
+
+The patch review process would be the same as edk2, and adding prefix **[edk2-redfish-client]**
+specifically for the patches against edk2-redfish-client repository. For more details, please
+see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+# How to build (Ubuntu Environment)
+## Prerequisite
+### Install packages
+```
+apt-get update; apt-get install install gcc g++ make uuid-dev nasm
+```
+If the `nasm` installed above shows build error during build process, we need to install
+newer version of `nasm` manually:
+- Download `nasm`
+  ```
+  wget https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.15rc12/nasm-2.15rc12.tar.gz"
+  ```
+- Extract file
+  ```
+  tar zxvf nasm-2.15rc12.tar.gz"
+  ```
+- Build and install `nasm`
+  ```
+  cd nasm-2.15rc12
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr
+  sudo make install
+  ```
+- Check to see if `nasm` reports desired version or not
+  ```
+  nasm -v
+  ```
+### Build EDKII base tools
+- Initial submodule (skip this if you already did this)
+  ```
+  git submodule update --init
+  ```
+- Build base tools
+  ```
+  cd BaseTools
+  make
+  ```
+## Build RedfishClientPkg
+In order to reference RedfishClientPkg, we need to set `PACKAGES_PATH` and specify the location
+of edk2-redfish-client repository.
+```
+export PACKAGES_PATH=$PWD/edk2:$PWD/edk2-redfish-client
+cd $PWD/edk2
+. ./edksetup.sh
+build -p RedfishClientPkg/RedfishClientPkg.dsc -t GCC5 -a X64
+```
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