Re: [staging/cadence-aarch64] Add readme for cadence-aarch64 branch

[Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>]

> On May 22, 2017, at 11:12 AM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Scott, thanks for this. Looking forward to seeing it.
> 
> Andrew, Mike - for what it's worth, I'm happy to do the mechanics here
> unless there are any objections.
> 

Looks good to me.

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> Oh, and it's usually a good idea to cc maintainers of existing
> packages you intend to work on. For MdeModulePkg, this is
> Feng Tian <feng.tian@intel.com>
> Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com> (from Maintainers.txt),
> and if creating any new packages (as you are), probably cc the
> stewards as well (we don't always spot all emails that hit the list)
> Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
> Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> myself.
> 
> Yes, we could do with adding this to the edk2-staging master branch
> README.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Leif
> 
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 05:33:43PM +0100, Scott Telford wrote:
>> Announcing the creation of a new edk2-staging branch for Cadence peripheral
>> hardware support in AArch64 platforms.
>> 
>> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
>> Signed-off-by: Scott Telford <stelford@cadence.com>
>> ---
>> Readme.MD | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 Readme.MD
>> 
>> diff --git a/Readme.MD b/Readme.MD
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..e2ec063
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Readme.MD
>> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
>> +# Cadence IP Support Branch
>> +
>> +This branch will be used to contribute code to support Cadence
>> +hardware IP for AArch64-based platforms.
>> +
>> +## edk2-staging branch owners
>> +* Scott Telford <stelford@cadence.com>
>> +
>> +## Introduction 
>> +
>> +Cadence develops a variety of peripheral IP modules suitable for ARM
>> +SoC architectures. This branch is intended to provide a staging area
>> +for drivers and libraries developed to support Cadence peripherals
>> +that may be incorporated into various SoC architectures from other
>> +vendors, for later integration into the appropriate EDK2
>> +platforms. Initially, the focus will be support for the Cadence PCIe
>> +4.0 Root Port. For internal development and testing purposes, an EDK2
>> +platform has been developed for a minimal AArch64 system
>> +configuration, comprising a single Cortex-A53 processor, GIC-500,
>> +NIC-400, Cadence PCIe Root Port, and Cadence UART. This will be
>> +included in the branch to provide an example of driver/platform
>> +integration.
>> +
>> +## Related Modules
>> +The following modules are related to this branch:
>> +* CadencePkg   - Package containing Cadence-specific drivers and libraries
>> +* MdeModulePkg - Package containing generic drivers relevant to Cadence peripheral IP
>> -- 
>> 2.2.2
>> 
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