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+# About
+
+The main SOC portion of Libre-SOC. A quad-core Libre-licensed SoC woth a 
+hybrid 3D GPU-VPU-CPU, and using Libre-licensed design cells.
+
+Libre-SOC is Libre down to the VLSI Cells, thanks to Chips4Makers FlexLib
+and Sorbonne University lip6.fr
+
+# Documentation
+
+See https://libre-soc.org/docs/
+
+# Installation
+
+Best done using the dev-env-setup scripts:
+https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=summary
+
+    make install
+    make test # optional (ish)
+
+# Running Simulator tests
+
+qemu and gdb for Power 64 are required.  qemu can be installed with
+"apt-get install qemu-system-ppc64", however gdb needs compiling from
+source.  The simplest way is to use this dev-env-script:
+
+https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=ppc64-gdb-gcc;hb=HEAD