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@@ -99,6 +99,60 @@
         </para>
     </section>
 
+    <section id='ref-tasks-image'>
+        <title><filename>do_image</filename></title>
+
+        <para>
+            Starts the image generation process.
+            The <filename>do_image</filename> task runs after the
+            OpenEmbedded build system has run the
+            <link linkend='ref-tasks-rootfs'><filename>do_rootfs</filename></link>
+            task during which packages are identified for installation into
+            the image and the root filesystem is created, complete with
+            post-processing.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+            The <filename>do_image</filename> task performs pre-processing
+            on the image through the
+            <link linkend='var-IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND'><filename>IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND</filename></link>
+            and dynamically generates supporting
+            <filename>do_image_*</filename> tasks as needed.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+            For more information on image creation, see the
+            "<link linkend='image-generation-dev-environment'>Image Generation</link>"
+            section.
+        </para>
+    </section>
+
+    <section id='ref-tasks-image-complete'>
+        <title><filename>do_image_complete</filename></title>
+
+        <para>
+            Completes the image generation process.
+            The <filename>do_image_complete</filename> task runs after the
+            OpenEmbedded build system has run the
+            <link linkend='ref-tasks-rootfs'><filename>do_image</filename></link>
+            task during which image pre-processing occurs and through
+            dynamically generated <filename>do_image_*</filename> tasks the
+            image is constructed.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+            The <filename>do_image_complete</filename> task performs
+            post-processing on the image through the
+            <link linkend='var-IMAGE_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND'><filename>IMAGE_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND</filename></link>.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>
+            For more information on image creation, see the
+            "<link linkend='image-generation-dev-environment'>Image Generation</link>"
+            section.
+        </para>
+    </section>
+
     <section id='ref-tasks-install'>
         <title><filename>do_install</filename></title>