diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 625cd3eb4b..2127455ed1 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -860,11 +860,9 @@
POKYMODE
- The toolchain selector.
- This variable has been replaced by TCMODE.
- The POKYMODE would select the external toolchain
- built from the Yocto Project or a few supported combinations of
- upstream GCC or CodeSourcery Labs toolchain.
+ This variable is no longer supported and has been replaced by the
+ TCMODE variable.
+
@@ -1127,15 +1125,25 @@
TCMODE
- The toolchain selector.
- This variable replaces POKYMODE.
+
+ The toolchain selector.
+ This variable replaces POKYMODE, which is no longer
+ supported.
+
+
+ The TCMODE variable selects the external toolchain
+ built from the Yocto Project or a few supported combinations of
+ the upstream GCC or CodeSourcery Labs toolchain.
The variable determines which of the files in
meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-* is used.
+
+
By default, TCMODE is set to "default", which
- chooses tcmode-default.inc.
- The variable is similar to TCLIBC, which controls the
- libc used: eglibc or uclibc.
-
+ chooses tcmode-default.inc.
+ The variable is similar to TCLIBC, which controls
+ the variant of the GNU standard C library (libc)
+ used during the build process: eglibc or uclibc.
+