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# Stage 1

Stage 1 is the first process that is launched by the Linux kernel from the
initial RAM disk. It is responsible for loading and launching the system image,
which contains the Linux distribution and the Orchestrator.

This directory contains the library implementation of Stage 1 that is shared by
the platform-specific Stage 1 binaries.
