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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2013-09-03 16:06:55 +0300 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-09-12 16:50:05 +0100 |
| commit | 4265649931b0d65ec5a43016b3e98dd5fbf47bd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 7747004591482b307748b36ab510f1714550975a /documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml | |
| parent | db678a124d4dfafeea5e6785405f2b826ad79792 (diff) | |
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ref-manual: Added section on linux kernel image names using PE
Fixes [YOCTO #5089]
In the "Migration" section for going from 1.3 to 1.4, I have
added a new section to describe how the value of PE is now in
the generated Linux kernel image filename.
(From yocto-docs rev: 8ff3d263d2374ab3745e5264c3747e36674e7484)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml index 4f46d63..302ce4c 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml @@ -230,6 +230,30 @@ </para> </section> </section> + + <section id='1.3-linux-kernel-naming'> + <title>Linux Kernel Naming</title> + + <para> + The naming scheme for kernel output binaries has been changed to + now include + <link linkend='var-PE'><filename>PE</filename></link> as part of the + filename: + <literallayout class='monospaced'> + KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME ?= "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}-${PE}-${PV}-${PR}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}" + </literallayout> + </para> + + <para> + Because the <filename>PE</filename> variable is not set by default, + these binary files could result with names that include two dash + characters. + Here is an example: + <literallayout class='monospaced'> + bzImage--3.10.9+git0+cd502a8814_7144bcc4b8-r0-qemux86-64-20130830085431.bin + </literallayout> + </para> + </section> </section> <section id='moving-to-the-yocto-project-1.4-release'> |
