<title>Using Kernel Metadata in a Recipe</title>
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- The kernel sources in the Yocto Project contain kernel Metadata, which
- is located in the <filename>meta</filename> branches of the kernel
- source Git repositories.
+ As mentioned in the introduction, the Yocto Project contains kernel
+ Metadata, which is located in the
+ <filename>yocto-kernel-cache</filename> Git repository.
This Metadata defines Board Support Packages (BSPs) that
- correspond to definitions in linux-yocto recipes for the same BSPs.
+ correspond to definitions in linux-yocto recipes for corresponding BSPs.
A BSP consists of an aggregation of kernel policy and enabled
hardware-specific features.
The BSP can be influenced from within the linux-yocto recipe.
<note>
- Linux kernel source that contains kernel Metadata is said to be
- "linux-yocto style" kernel source.
- A Linux kernel recipe that inherits from the
- <filename>linux-yocto.inc</filename> include file is said to be a
- "linux-yocto style" recipe.
+ A Linux kernel recipe that contains kernel Metadata (e.g.
+ inherits from the <filename>linux-yocto.inc</filename> file)
+ is said to be a "linux-yocto style" recipe.
</note>
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<note>
You can use the <filename>KBRANCH</filename> value to define an
alternate branch typically with a machine override as shown here
- from the <filename>meta-emenlow</filename> layer:
+ from the <filename>meta-yocto-bsp</filename> layer:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
- KBRANCH_emenlow-noemgd = "standard/base"
+ KBRANCH_edgerouter = "standard/edgerouter"
</literallayout>
</note>
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recipe.
The tools use the first BSP description it finds that match
both variables.
- If the tools cannot find a match, they issue a warning such as
- the following:
- <literallayout class='monospaced'>
- WARNING: Can't find any BSP hardware or required configuration fragments.
- WARNING: Looked at meta/cfg/broken/emenlow-broken/hdw_frags.txt and
- meta/cfg/broken/emenlow-broken/required_frags.txt in directory:
- meta/cfg/broken/emenlow-broken
- </literallayout>
- In this example, <filename>KMACHINE</filename> was set to "emenlow-broken"
- and <filename>LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE</filename> was set to "broken".
+ If the tools cannot find a match, they issue a warning.
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