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Signed-off-by: Taras Drozdovskyi <t.drozdovsky@gmail.com>

- This PR provides a guide for adding a new platform.
- Fixes #127
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## Platforms supported

| **x86-64 Linux** | **Raspberry Pi3** | **HiKey960** | **Raspberry Pi3 Cluster** | **Orange Pi3** |
|------------------|-------------------|--------------|---------------------------|----------------|
| **x86-64 Linux** | **Raspberry Pi3** | **HiKey960** | **Raspberry Pi3 Cluster** |
|------------------|-------------------|--------------|---------------------------|
|[![](docs/platforms/x86_64_linux/x86_64_linux.png)](docs/platforms/x86_64_linux/x86_64_linux.md)|[![](docs/platforms/raspberry_pi3/raspberry_pi3.jpg)](docs/platforms/raspberry_pi3/raspberry_pi3.md)|[![](docs/platforms/hikey960/hikey960.png)](docs/platforms/hikey960/hikey960.md)|[![](docs/platforms/raspberry_pi3_cluster/raspberry_pi3_cluster.jpg)](docs/platforms/raspberry_pi3_cluster/raspberry_pi3_cluster.md)|[![](docs/platforms/orange_pi3/orange_pi3.jpg)](docs/platforms/orange_pi3/orange_pi3.md)|
| **Orange Pi3** | **Add a new Platform** |||
|[![](docs/platforms/orange_pi3/orange_pi3.jpg)](docs/platforms/orange_pi3/orange_pi3.md)|[![](docs/images/add-new-platform_150.png)](docs/how-to-add-new-platform.md)|||


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Please select the target platform in the table below and follow the link.

| Platform | Maintained |
|-------------------------|------------|
| [x86_64 Linux] | coconut |
| [Raspberry Pi3] | coconut |
| [HiKey960] | coconut |
| [Raspberry Pi3 Cluster] | coconut |
| [Orange Pi3] | coconut |

| Platform | Maintained | Maintainer | Remarks |
|-------------------------|-------------|--------------| ----------------------------------|
| [x86_64 Linux] | coconut | @lf-edge/edge-home-orchestration-go-committers | |
| [Raspberry Pi3] | coconut | @t25kim | |
| [HiKey960] | coconut | @tdrozdovsky | |
| [Raspberry Pi3 Cluster] | coconut | @tdrozdovsky | |
| [Orange Pi3] | coconut | @Vitalii55 | |
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## Documentation
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# How to add a new platform

# Contents
1. [Introduction](#1-introduction)
2. [Add a new platform](#2-add-a-new-platform)
2.1 [Additional code structure](#21-additional-code-structure)
2.2 [Update README.md](#22-update-readmemd)
3. [Code inclusion to Edge-Orchestration upstream](#3-code-inclusion-to-edge-orchestration-upstream)

## 1. Introduction
This document provides a description of how to add a new platform to the Edge-Orchestration project.

## 2. Add a new platform
First of all, you can familiarize yourself with the [Raspberry Pi 3 example](./platforms/raspberry_pi3/raspberry_pi3.md) and do the same.
Porting a new platform is a simple process with three main parts.

### 2.1 Additional code structure

You must first create a directory with the name of your platform `<new platform name folder>`, a file with description `<name_platform>.md` and a picture of the platform `<name_platform>.png`. Example see below:
```
...
├── docs
│   ├── platforms
│   │   ├── <new platform name folder>
│   │   │   ├── <name_platform>.md
│   │   │   └── <name_platform>.png
│   │   ├── raspberry_pi3
│   │   │   ├── raspberry_pi3.jpg
│   │   │   └── raspberry_pi3.md
...
```
#### 2.1.1 <name_platform>.md
The following aspects need to be described in this file:
* Describe how to create or where to download a Linux image.
* How to start and configure Linux (network configuration if required).
* How to download and run pre-built Docker image (`edge-orchestration.tar`) without building and/or describe the procedure for how to build `edge-orchestration.tar` directly on the board.
* Describe the procedure for launching a docker on the board without root permission.

> The above points are required. If you have additional information, you can provide it without hesitation.
#### 2.1.2 <name_platform>.png
The requirement for this file is as follows:
* Display the board at an angle to make it easy to recognize.
* Size no more than 150 pixels in width or height.
* Picture format `png` or `jpg`.
* Preferably white background.

### 2.2 Update README.md
There is a section [3. Platforms Supported](https://github.com/lf-edge/edge-home-orchestration-go#platforms-supported) which lists all devices that are supported in the Edge-Orchestration, you must add your platform by specifying a link to the description and picture of the platform.
You also need to add a platform description into [Quick start guides for supported platforms](https://github.com/lf-edge/edge-home-orchestration-go#quick-start-guides-for-supported-platforms)
where:
* **Platform** - platform name and link to quick start guide
* **Maintained** - version or repository tag the Edge-Orchestration was tested latest
* **Maintainer** - contact person who can help to run Edge-Orchestration on the this platform
* **Remarks** - additional important information

## 3. Code inclusion to Edge-Orchestration upstream
We do encourage everyone to submit their board support to the edge-orchestration project itself, so it becomes part of the official releases and will be maintained by the edge-orchestration community itself. If you intend to do so, then there are a few more things that you are supposed to do.

If you are submitting the board support upstream and cannot give Edge-Orchestration maintainers your platform, then we are going to ask you to become the maintainer of the platform you have added. By being a maintainer for the platform you are responsible to keep it up to date and we will be ask to test every the Edge-Orchestration release on your platform.

[README.md]: ../README.md
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the build result will be `edge-orchestration.tar` archive that can be found `bin/edge-orchestration.tar`

Next, need to copy `edge-orchestration.tar` archive to the Paspberry Pi 3 board, install the docker container (see [here](../x86_64_linux/x86_64_linux.md#Build-Prerequisites) only docker part) and load the image using the command:
Next, need to copy `edge-orchestration.tar` archive to the Raspberry Pi 3 board, install the docker container (see [here](../x86_64_linux/x86_64_linux.md#Build-Prerequisites) only docker part) and load the image using the command:
```shell
$ docker load -i edge-orchestration.tar
```
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