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+Generic Platform
+================
+
+The **Generic** platform is a flattened device tree (FDT) based platform
+where all platform specific functionality is provided based on FDT passed
+by previous booting stage. The **Generic** platform allows us to use same
+OpenSBI firmware binaries on various emulators, simulators, FPGAs, and
+boards.
+
+By default, the generic FDT platform makes following assumptions:
+
+1. platform FW_TEXT_START is 0x80000000
+2. platform features are default
+3. platform stack size is default
+4. platform has no quirks or work-arounds
+
+The above assumptions (except 1) can be overridden by adding special platform
+callbacks which will be called based on FDT root node compatible string.
+
+Users of the generic FDT platform will have to ensure that:
+
+1. Various FDT based drivers under lib/utils directory are upto date
+   based on their platform requirements
+2. The FDT passed by previous booting stage has DT compatible strings and
+   DT properties in sync with the FDT based drivers under lib/utils directory
+3. The FDT must have "stdout-path" DT property in the "/chosen" DT node when
+   a platform has multiple serial ports or consoles
+4. On multi-HART platform, the FDT must have a DT node for IPI device and
+   lib/utils/ipi directory must have corresponding FDT based IPI driver
+5. The FDT must have a DT node for timer device and lib/utils/timer directory
+   must have corresponding FDT based timer driver
+
+To build the platform-specific library and firmware images, provide the
+*PLATFORM=generic* parameter to the top level `make` command.
+
+For custom FW_TEXT_START, we can build the platform-specific library and
+firmware images by passing *PLATFORM=generic FW_TEXT_START=<custom_text_start>*
+parameter to the top level `make` command.
+
+Platform Options
+----------------
+
+The *Generic* platform does not have any platform-specific options.
+
+RISC-V Platforms Using Generic Platform
+---------------------------------------
+
+* **QEMU RISC-V Virt Machine** (*[qemu_virt.md]*)
+* **Spike** (*[spike.md]*)
+* **Shakti C-class SoC Platform** (*[shakti_cclass.md]*)
+
+[qemu_virt.md]: qemu_virt.md
+[spike.md]: spike.md
+[shakti_cclass.md]: shakti_cclass.md