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2013-01-16kernel-dev: Links added for new glossary variable terms.Scott Rifenbark
Added links for the LINUX_VERSION, LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION, and SRCPV glossary entry terms. (From yocto-docs rev: be6c716f436a631e97f8a429aa9b2d2fa75816e5) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16ref-manual: New glossary entry for SRCPV variable added.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 0eba5f7ff3e6801c1f8e41df02276e5524ff03f8) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16ref-manual: New LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION variable glossary entry.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 98a1d57e0bcf018509bb2a167381817b0b6b95d8) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16ref-manual: New LINUX_VERSION glossary entry.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: daf7bf83049b51ec918af1c49c53502b6488f675) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Fixed a typo in question 4.6.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 92dba7b37d3f8b1204bf08e9bedc3f820502aed3) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to the SCC reference section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 51872ec247e93f9dd7b7c12ee32191565c30ebfa) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to Advanced Metadata chapterScott Rifenbark
Removed all the orginal text. (From yocto-docs rev: 8a3b11fb6936574edb4fd0daf60d21ee2c2ccd8f) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to Introduction chapter.Scott Rifenbark
Removed the block of original text. (From yocto-docs rev: ff36ef73cbf50b966bf539b013260fb7c668d82e) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to the "Incorporating Out-of-Tree Modules" section.Scott Rifenbark
Removed the original text. (From yocto-docs rev: 0f3e89c7e6b8249cd643822f33c8168ca7cd83c9) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to the "Working with your Own Sources" section.Scott Rifenbark
Final tweaks to this list of variables. (From yocto-docs rev: d494c8b06a623ef4930e206dd8e5689c8a9d4923) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: transitory edits.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 89e6335e0e9d23a6df581ccd5f55c2a7673050cf) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Updates to "Using an Iterative Development Process"Scott Rifenbark
Updated the name of this section to be consistent with "doing" something as the rest of the chapter is action-based. Did some other minor edits. Also, removed the original Darren text. (From yocto-docs rev: 3be86ee72766207c3812245917b8b20af86b26f4) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to "Modifying a Recipe" section.Scott Rifenbark
Edits added a couple cross-refenences back into the YP dev-manual where detailed examples of patching and configuring the kernel exist. (From yocto-docs rev: 1ae2a18f0367841d1ea9bb8d3f3d323a9b573533) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Removed original text from "Applying Patches" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 7293f8ead1ac3a8029eb7bb384e4e1b9fb71cfa1) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Created new "Creating the Append File" section.Scott Rifenbark
fixed up the organization of how you modify a recipe. It can consist of three things. I have created a new subsection for the first item, creating the append file. (From yocto-docs rev: a8342ccf18c0406669f6983da31d38603d87921e) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to "Modifying an Existing Recipe"Scott Rifenbark
Second pass through this section. Also removed the original text. Switching to numbered list. (From yocto-docs rev: 7978c5acd4776e6ade7c0ee34c6f7ab58eeb2bb9) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to "Creating and Preparing a Layer"Scott Rifenbark
Changed the name of this section and took out the bit about the manual being written with the assumption of a custom layer being created. The manual does not particularly call this out with any examples so it is not needed. I pulled the copy of the original text also. (From yocto-docs rev: c7623d96ed2d9c5866e52842f8cfea2ebde95d0e) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Re-write of the "Organizing Your Source" section.Scott Rifenbark
A serious pass through this system to reorganize it. (From yocto-docs rev: f13abc59730d78e5ffa5bce3d38519f8fc4c127f) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Intermediary edits to the "branches" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: d12e98f4b80feb1538b51cd9e3a8c204c86f13fc) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits in the Branch section.Scott Rifenbark
simple edits. (From yocto-docs rev: 3f73e53c9bdbe71f04400aedc042f19a48ea62bb) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Created super section for Branches.Scott Rifenbark
The sections for "Machine Branches" and "Feature Branches" really should be encapsulated within a section on branching. Much of the text in the "Machine Branches" section presents the rationale behind both types of branches. I have created a larger section to contain these and will edit the text to fit. (From yocto-docs rev: c7c67f5867f22ebbbd49cab79bb2d4e52422ecac) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Removed recursive include statement from examples.Scott Rifenbark
Three instances of *.scc files were recursively including themselves. These .scc files needed to have their names changed to a file that indicated hardware support only. (From yocto-docs rev: f1c347f8f63141807084ac0a2bd3b64e138315cb) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Re-write of the "BSP Description" section.Scott Rifenbark
First re-write of this section. Terminology is an issue here. Dumping the term "ktype" for good. (From yocto-docs rev: e5ee05c5bfec2a0c62b89245efbe248a66b66288) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Re-write of the "Kernel Types" section.Scott Rifenbark
First real re-write of this section. (From yocto-docs rev: 636a852d4748904df6794bef391f7f5ef3db3c0f) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Re-write of the "Features" section.Scott Rifenbark
first real re-write of this section. (From yocto-docs rev: 09a9d0978d939f40782179f9fd46ccd7b999c262) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: First re-write of the "Patches" section.scott-lenovo
(From yocto-docs rev: 64e2b623e040efeefdef572024c867a57a883f24) Signed-off-by: scott-lenovo <scott-lenovo@ubuntu.(none)> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to the "Configuration" section.scott-lenovo
First real re-write of this original text. (From yocto-docs rev: a6d16b61057df8ed811cf1f5f27c5f9e08be1108) Signed-off-by: scott-lenovo <scott-lenovo@ubuntu.(none)> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: edits to the "Kernel Metadata Syntax" section.scott-lenovo
First real re-write of this section. (From yocto-docs rev: 41c79da0832c0b290b21cc2aff87091d7243fafa) Signed-off-by: scott-lenovo <scott-lenovo@ubuntu.(none)> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-ref: Edits to Recipe-Space Metadata" section.scott-lenovo
This is the first serious re-write of the text from the original. Edits to make it more readable. (From yocto-docs rev: 21c77fdfc9ae1a02b1d02fb113324c96c6aecb5e) Signed-off-by: scott-lenovo <scott-lenovo@ubuntu.(none)> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: General edits to "Kernel Metadata Location" section.Scott Rifenbark
First real pass at cleaning up the text. (From yocto-docs rev: a550e96780b5be191a576bbb20ef28a36b20e0bc) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to using metadata in a recipe section.Scott Rifenbark
General edits to clarify the writing. (From yocto-docs rev: 0510ab0faf81e0ac1c931863337eb217581c66ed) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: removed "many" based on Darren's Feedback.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 4f0de9cd389f37f86c2f88e399e52a284a4f870b) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: General edits during re-write.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 7fc9b1bdeb63c32252a243ab21e31ba25779bb1b) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Edits to the introduction chapter.Scott Rifenbark
I did some re-writing for better understanding based on what I know. (From yocto-docs rev: fc3adb037ac07a90dfbba6b76643391480e0bce5) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Fixed the COMPATIBLE_MACHINE example.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: ea9a862b3840075cfb197bf00cb96b616873f0ea) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: General edits for "Working with your own Sources"Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: d5627b98c98e47b963da35eefeb9808877dae296) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: General edits up to section 2.4.scott-lenovo
(From yocto-docs rev: 2df095c98a6fa034cb39f952db27d1ab55849000) Signed-off-by: scott-lenovo <scott-lenovo@ubuntu.(none)> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Updates to the introduction chapter.scott-lenovo
General edits for readability, etc. (From yocto-docs rev: eb52c743ad0fba7859ee4800f12981294aa71b23) Signed-off-by: scott-lenovo <scott-lenovo@ubuntu.(none)> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Fixed some broken links.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 0b1549deddf4d4dfb2204790cdf0714bd0dc3da3) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Added support for the FAQ chapter.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 05162a9462674a35c36676b09987510c94467688) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Initial edits to the kernel-dev-faq.xml chapter.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: c76898ec961cc741c6f67448b1227111ef34dbaa) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Added a new file named "kernel-dev-faq.xml".Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 00d6239d615e83fa0457ab82678c9501d0ea4e98) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Formatted the "SCC Reference" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: d688741743ff3ffeaf387dffc728af40331e8933) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Formatted "Feature Branches" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 6225075b08b3585532e60c9aebc0903a4509e51f) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Formatting "Machine Branches" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 30a0d3c1ef3d91221ce3f90a3fd2f4b93bff1c30) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Formatted the "BSP Descriptions" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 9cfccb3372f47094479fb0a5ad095cf2b46f906e) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Formatted "Kernel Types" section.Scott Rifenbark
Also put in the initial text for the next section, which is "BSP Descriptions." (From yocto-docs rev: 0c9b0475d9c1a97c7b00df325dad0c830e30444b) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Formatted "Features" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 500ae50979dad7f730d8c0a5e987c608422f3c71) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Formatted the "Patches" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: e7de7e806d4cd02e4b5c8cb1ac237809bef5144e) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-16kernel-dev: Formatted the "Configuration" section.Scott Rifenbark
(From yocto-docs rev: 2b3be91ffdc6c27306f381cf083f4b3e805c2d38) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>