From a59ca8316bf29be5a1f564b6de53ac76ecc27a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:22:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml: updates to
 KERNEL_FEATURES.

(From yocto-docs rev: ec1e2d71c576fe1c12031371de89a71770cebb1d)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 24137480c1..85e6d778fb 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -583,7 +583,13 @@
         <glossentry id='var-KERNEL_FEATURES'><glossterm>KERNEL_FEATURES</glossterm>
             <glossdef>
                 <para>Includes additional metadata from the Linux Yocto kernel Git repository.
-                    The metadata includes config fragments and features descriptions,
+                    In the Yocto Project build system, the default Board Support Packages (BSPs)
+                    metadata is provided through 
+                    the <filename>KMACHINE</filename> and <filename>KBRANCH</filename> variables.
+                    You can use the <filename>KERNEL_FEATURES</filename> variable to further 
+                    add metadata for all BSPs.</para>
+                <para>The metadata you add through this variable includes config fragments and 
+                    features descriptions,
                     which usually include patches as well as config fragments.
                     You typically override the <filename>KERNEL_FEATURES</filename> variable
                     for a specific machine.</para>