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Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>

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+h1. Linaro Reference Platform Firmware 18.11
+
+p. Linaro periodically releases binary images of UEFI, based on the TianoCore project.
+
+h2. Upstream version
+
+p. The Linaro UEFI tree is built from the following upstream TianoCore repositories:
+
+| *Repository* | *revision* |
+| "edk2":https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 | edk2-stable201811 |
+| "edk2-platforms":https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms | cc2b26de91e09be9f9789d553e7b3e079c822efb |
+| "edk2-non-osi":https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms | 047bb77dd93840fc2ad78bce2f580a0887a4b825 |
+
+p. This version does not include any cherry-picked patches on top of this.
+
+h2. Platform Support
+
+p. Platforms supported by this release include:
+
+* qemu-aarch32, qemu-aarch64 (mach-virt)
+* Hisilicon D03, D05, D06
+* ARM Foundation/FVP Base and SGI575 models
+
+h2. New in this release
+
+* First release including support for Hisilicon D06.
+* Includes prebuilt CapsuleApp for ARM/AArch64.
+
+h2. Building EDK2
+
+p. For more instructions on how to build EDK2 from source, please see the "edk2-platforms documentation":https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/blob/master/Readme.md.
+
+p. For rebuilding this release:
+
+bc. $ git clone https://git.linaro.org/uefi/rpf.git
+$ cd rpf
+$ git checkout rpf-18.11
+$ ./build.sh
+
+p. Building this release requires a recent version of @acpica-tools@. These binaries were generated using version 20181003, but versions 20180629 onwards are functional.