From: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:36:35 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: kernel-dev: Additions to the "Overview" section.
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kernel-dev: Additions to the "Overview" section.

I provided some background on two repositories: yocto-kernel-cache
and yocto-kernel-tools.

(From yocto-docs rev: 1741d6efd4ff8364a55d546897cab5e7cdee6da5)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
index 380200a6330..812c77547b3 100644
--- a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
+++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-advanced.xml
@@ -13,11 +13,31 @@
         Yocto Project kernel tools also support rich
         <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#metadata'>Metadata</ulink> that you can
         use to define complex policies and Board Support Package (BSP) support.
-        The purpose of the Metadata and the tools that manage it, known as
-        the kern-tools (<filename>kern-tools-native_git.bb</filename>), is
+        The purpose of the Metadata and the tools that manage it is
         to help you manage the complexity of the configuration and sources
         used to support multiple BSPs and Linux kernel types.
     </para>
+
+    <para>
+        Kernel Metadata exists in many places.
+        One area in the Yocto Project
+        <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#source-repositories'>Source Repositories</ulink>
+        is the <filename>yocto-kernel-cache</filename> Git repository.
+        You can find this repository grouped under the "Yocto Linux Kernel"
+        heading in the
+        <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;'>Yocto Project Source Repositories</ulink>.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+        Kernel development tools ("kern-tools") exist also in the Yocto
+        Project Source Repositories under the "Yocto Linux Kernel" heading
+        in the <filename>yocto-kernel-tools</filename> Git repository.
+        The recipe that builds these tools is
+        <filename>meta/recipes-kernel/kern-tools/kern-tools-native_git.bb</filename>
+        in the
+        <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#source-directory'>Source Directory</ulink>
+        (e.g. <filename>poky</filename>).
+    </para>
 </section>
 
 <section id='using-kernel-metadata-in-a-recipe'>