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* ref-manual: Updated the DISTROOVERRIDES variable description.Scott Rifenbark2016-09-231-10/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10176] Provided a more complete description of this variable. (From yocto-docs rev: 164bf11250c965aadd1ee1573267aa31daa8a4e8) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updated the MACHINEOVERRIDES variable descriptionScott Rifenbark2016-09-231-21/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10175] Provided a more detailed description of this variable. (From yocto-docs rev: 95a80313dfb276425020a61d199b75d259b47ff1) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Rewrite of the CLASSOVERRIDE variable in the glossaryScott Rifenbark2016-09-231-9/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10174] I applied a more descriptive explanation of this varialbe. (From yocto-docs rev: 7c6c2645b7e74e1c7de0d43b35307c8917648959) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Grammar fix in the OVERRIDES variable description.Scott Rifenbark2016-09-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: cae94f6b5595e3674af041110d89f736f833cc88) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Grammar fix in "Stamp Files and the Rerunning of Tasks"Scott Rifenbark2016-09-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 0d04e8c226ff9391e14f5b07ee95de4e4b7d3bcf) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Clarified the OVERRIDES glossary description.Scott Rifenbark2016-09-231-7/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10173] I provided a more detailed description of how this variable works. Also provided a cross-reference link back to the variable at the end of the PREFERRED_VERSION variable. (From yocto-docs rev: 679b205eea541b89e220656f7aa304d0f343c8a6) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: New section clarifying stamps, input checksums and sstate cacheScott Rifenbark2016-09-233-2/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10172] I added a new section on how BitBake reruns tasks based on the stamps files. Also put in some cross-referencing links to that new section in the stamps entry for the structure chapter and in the STAMP variable in the glossary. (From yocto-docs rev: da8779d9eb85473cd6b0f74e9e1371e1d277890f) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updated systemd-boot documentation link.Scott Rifenbark2016-09-232-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #9707] The original link was bogus. I applied four instances to fix the link. (From yocto-docs rev: f03d5af6ddf0430cf98332c5d54f3fe68fb69cf9) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Fixed small wording in PKGR in the glossaryScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10138] (From yocto-docs rev: e49e5055e48f3c426090d2bc62b2bffbc2577dd0) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Replaced "bitbake-dumpsigs" with "bitbake-dumpsig".Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10141] (From yocto-docs rev: e74a66d146e7f666a71f2dab6a5f78de5ad1966c) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updates to PKGV, PKGE, and PKGR.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-8/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10138] Small wording changes. (From yocto-docs rev: 66afe7560f086ea350df92b2b40ce5790d3d523c) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* dev-manual, ref-manual: Systemd-boot: Update documents for new EFI bootloaderScott Rifenbark2016-08-253-131/+138
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #9707] * Replaced gummiboot with systemd-boot in the dev-manual * Replaced the gummiboot class with a new systemd-boot class * Replaced the appropriate gummiboot variables in the glossary with new variables SYSTEMD_BOOT_CFG, SYSTEMD_BOOT_ENTRIES, and SYSTEMD_BOOT_TIMEOUT. (From yocto-docs rev: 778b620e65cc68531b3c41aeb8f27f2a07eb0d00) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Added bitbake.conf to list of example conf filesScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10144] In the "Viewing Variable Names" section, there is a list of example configuration files. I added bitbake.conf to the list. (From yocto-docs rev: 5a19d5c314881e223aaa567c8eb8f6ed4fbc01df) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Suggested fleshing out of the sigdata/siginfo documentationScott Rifenbark2016-08-252-54/+130
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10141] Provided several fixes to address this situation: * Renamed "Debugging Build Failures" to "Debugging Tools and Techniques" as it fit better the subsections. * Renamed "Viewing Dependencies" to "Viewing Dependencies Between Recipes and Tasks" as it fit better the description. * Added a new "Viewing Task Variable Dependencies" section to describe how sigdata and siginfo stuff can be used. * Replaced the contents of "4.3.4.1 Debugging" with a shorter bit that now references into the new section on veiwing task variable dependencies. (From yocto-docs rev: 539d76366055bed74ccc926519e969324cac470d) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updated some variables in the glossary for nits.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-8/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10138] Small fixes for the following variables: * PKGV * PV * PE * PR (From yocto-docs rev: 4ffc6a2fed330cec320e744561df3aad2a349cf5) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Added developer note for updating to NeonScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-0/+5
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: bd21fdd102d7daa3f03b978760d9190a3815e243) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Updated boxes to check when installing pre-built mars yp plug-inScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | Removed the Bitbake commander item and renamed the ADT one to SDK. (From yocto-docs rev: 7bb7823bd9991ce95315b76bdfb3175c53198401) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Removed "snapshot" in an example version string.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 5ce7ad30cfc95b459a3da7b1cc540d1207d50dd8) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Added note to link to the wiki on building an SDKScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-13/+23
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 29704fa495a97279c5d4e29bee22f0aaa9e15cba) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Added an example name for an extensible SDKScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-3/+8
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: bbc2ac36d19713242307b73393035d3fca6ed5a0) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Fixed a broken "do_install" task linkScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: bef1a51e0c0a5a0145e942c1cc3f868f1cfaa03c) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Fixed a broken link to the "base" classScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 22eba313276ea95030634eef8632e4e05cb1e484) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: "Linkified" the CC variable in section 3.3.4Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-1/+2
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: d020cfc08e5d0679d7d5d3fd4269be877413e863) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Grammar fix.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-1/+2
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 709481dd0711abda063120f775b35b58c9a2af15) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Updated the extensible SDK installer exampleScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-4/+23
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 3791f4abc21c565f7e258a550e66327dbbe7a384) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Re-worded Step 6 for deploying image in eclipse flow.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-7/+6
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: dd0b96a3917ab6b6c0a22af1d23f48beee6a2cd3) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Added note about building the image for QEMU useScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-8/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | Placed a note in step 4 of the "Workflow Using Eclipse(tm)" section that an alternative method to getting the target root filesystem and toolchain is to build them out. Referenced the wiki. (From yocto-docs rev: 60720be0fe0d29a0b695005bb40f5b0c25475b55) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Removed bad linkScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Dumped a link to pre-built kernel naming information. The link was to the sdk-manual, which made no sense. (From yocto-docs rev: 9b7a9f8217d9251f2d7166afc0bb3b4235264201) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Provided better wording to intro running sdk env script.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-6/+7
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 41b9b8170179a59b6534db9e926d5086be7d4328) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Added note about building and SDKScott Rifenbark2016-08-251-0/+11
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 6518e03bc0259af04f01596f3f66c123616063e7) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Used &DISTRO; for some output release versions.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-251-5/+5
| | | | | | | (From yocto-docs rev: 4dbcd9957366665028adf955951af6256e67c152) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* sdk-manual: Created new Mars Eclipse appendixScott Rifenbark2016-08-254-189/+914
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #7546] First draft of the new appendix supporting the Mars version of eclipse. New appendix file created and entry made to the sdk-manual.xml file to include that new appendix file into the main book. (From yocto-docs rev: 2fb79c29bcbb5c0801f67d4c245c07c3aa9d2ca2) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> sdk-manual: WIP on appendix C Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: swabber: remove from documentationMaxin B. John2016-08-191-16/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Remove documentation as swabber was removed from oe-core with this commit: commit a7ddbea345c90646e6b9ddb89f768865caffdf07 (From yocto-docs rev: f3c462b2c6aa20de53c77e5d93cf397ae36cb2bb) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Update SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK descriptionCalifornia Sullivan2016-08-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous description was not accurate. Looking at the code, SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK does not act like SERIAL_CONSOLES, as it will not add consoles to enable but only check and disable consoles defined by SERIAL_CONSOLES. Also, the previous patch adds aliasing functionality that needed to be documented. I (Scott Rifenbark) did a bit of word-smithing here from the original patch. (From yocto-docs rev: 55d07048e831f0dbc955b74e029fe26ed276675b) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: change SYSLINUX_ROOT to ROOT_VM for DISK_SIGNATURE variableJonathan Liu2016-08-191-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | The SYSLINUX_ROOT variable was renamed to ROOT_VM in krogoth. (From yocto-docs rev: c4bbe8bc4967dd631b939f6806d65e2862df3424) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Applied review edits to "Viewing Dependencies"Scott Rifenbark2016-08-181-26/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10131] Fixed some small issues here and there. Also, provided a second itemized item in the note box turning it into a notes box. (From yocto-docs rev: a736c3bb707e81eda7760c642084a5a7c4de2539) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Removed the "pid" stuff from viewing failed tasksScott Rifenbark2016-08-181-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10132] My attempt to be complete on the filenames that have a "pid" portion were not correct. I have removed them from the first paragraph. (From yocto-docs rev: 8261b93b39df9abc9f9d6ccb4c00dc11330ad516) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Various small corrections to package-related stuffScott Rifenbark2016-08-183-5/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10135] Some small problems were fixed: * Added a cross-reference in the FILES glossary entry to the PACKAGES variable. The two are tied and there was not a reference to it. * Removed a redundant "/" character in a pathname example in the dev-manual. * Removed a redundant "/" character in an example pathname in the FILES glossary description. (From yocto-docs rev: 11a397c232696deece7ac5c6dafcadb87d7a5775) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updated the "Viewing Logs from Failed Tasks" section.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-181-10/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10132] Provided a better description and removed a deprecated sentence near the end. (From yocto-docs rev: bbe588e19bb9ed58883ae7c770da551de659e982) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updated the section on viewing dependenciesScott Rifenbark2016-08-181-20/+87
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10131] The section was renamed "Viewing Dependencies" for consistency. The section was moved up to be the third item in the sub-section list. The section was extensively re-written to provide more clarity and options for the user to view dependencies. (From yocto-docs rev: d521c3aabe6ded105cde6f7b3563c85340f759fd) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Clarify and flesh out debugging using bitbake -eScott Rifenbark2016-08-181-21/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10099] Renamed the log file section to better describe what the user is accomplishing. Renamed and repositioned the variables section to better describe and emphasize the task. Also fleshed out the variables section with more information. (From yocto-docs rev: 0606fe481416a07bf98fc8ae79a30c1d62e75e6d) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* dev-manual: Added a new "known issue" for running qemu.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-181-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #9285] Added a new bullet item to note that Using QEMU in usermode might not work properly when running 64-bit binaries under 32-bit host machines. In particular, "qemumips64" is known to not work under i686. (From yocto-docs rev: 896beb3fddd427f8327d4ddd35be253866c90377) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updated PROVIDES and FILES variable descriptionsScott Rifenbark2016-08-181-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10094] For PROVIDES, I added information about how the do_package task goes through PACKAGES and uses the FILES variable corresponding to each package to assign files to the package. For FILES, I added a blurb to the existing note how you can find default values for the FILES* variables. (From yocto-docs rev: c70f79a608076c5c0490918b87986554bc5d8353) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updated the SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK variable description.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-181-5/+14
| | | | | | | | | Provided a better, more accurate description of this variable. (From yocto-docs rev: 020f927bc01d662601fb44b19e4c6bc70e5e5ee7) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Changed the BPN variable description.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-181-13/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10068] Removed redundant wording. (From yocto-docs rev: b6c9c979a01c8070d3d2c23340d3c0f5ef358157) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Updates to PARALLEL_MAKE, PARALLEL_MAKEINST, EXTRA_OEMAKEScott Rifenbark2016-08-181-4/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10070] Updated these three variables with various items to make clear that PARALLEL_MAKE and PARALLEL_MAKEINST won't work unless EXTRA_OEMAKE is passed to "make". (From yocto-docs rev: 4f8b56cc67502cd672e0296cf2f143ecbcde22ac) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Added note to PROVIDES variable description.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-181-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10069] Added a note at the end of the variable description to explain how runtime virual dependencies work. (From yocto-docs rev: de1d16017c27b6b2502735fc41acd22660f6e7b9) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: New "Fakeroot and Pseudo" section.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-183-0/+86
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10060] I provided a new section in the Technical Details chapter. Also some extra explanation was added to both the do_install task and to the D variable. (From yocto-docs rev: 565fb11d72bf8c585469bcf65f92b6738e344813) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Added new variable description EXTRANATIVEPATH.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-181-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10002] Created new base description for EXTRANATIVEPATH. (From yocto-docs rev: aafc2de2657203440fe4b0bf3895cf367063bed1) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
* ref-manual: Applied review changes to INITRAMF_IMAGE variable.Scott Rifenbark2016-08-181-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes [YOCTO #10012] There was a mistake referring to the wrong example recipe. I changed "core-image-sato-initramfs.bb" to "core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb" for the fix. (From yocto-docs rev: 4d63e1fc5786556dd0dd5ca1435252d43dbd745a) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>