From 4423b5b0247ed45a6c023bea86ae1fa3d6bc5ba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:09:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml: Added KERNEL_FEATURES Added this variable description in the glossary. (From yocto-docs rev: 12a9e5b4dfc399ff2037355aa1062f907a62e76d) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- .../poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 22 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index 15bbcee896..24137480c1 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ H I - K + K L M @@ -580,6 +580,26 @@ K + KERNEL_FEATURES + + Includes additional metadata from the Linux Yocto kernel Git repository. + The metadata includes config fragments and features descriptions, + which usually include patches as well as config fragments. + You typically override the KERNEL_FEATURES variable + for a specific machine. + For example, the following adds netfilter to all + the Linux Yocto kernels and adds sound support to the qemux86 + machine: + + # Add netfilter to all linux-yocto kernels + KERNEL_FEATURES="features/netfilter" + + # Add sound support to the qemux86 machine + KERNEL_FEATURES_append_qemux86="cfg/sound" + + + + KERNEL_IMAGETYPE The type of kernel to build for a device, usually set by the