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kernel-dev: Edits to the "Working with your Own Sources" section. 

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>
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Scott Rifenbark 2013-01-14 11:52:28 -08:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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<para>
To help you use your own sources, the Yocto Project provides a
linux-yocto custom recipe
<filename>linux-yocto-custom.bb</filename> that uses
(<filename>linux-yocto-custom.bb</filename>) that uses
<filename>kernel.org</filename> sources
and the Yocto Project Linux kernel tools for managing Metadata.
and the Yocto Project Linux kernel tools for managing
kernel Metadata.
You can find this recipe in the
<filename>poky</filename> Git repository of the
Yocto Project <ulink url='&YOCTO_GIT_URL;'>Source Repository</ulink>
@ -469,7 +470,7 @@
The name should include the version of the Linux kernel you
are using (e.g. <filename>linux-yocto-myproject_3.5.bb</filename>,
where "3.5" is the base version of the Linux kernel
with which you would be working.</para></listitem>
with which you would be working).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>In the same directory inside your layer,
create a matching directory
to store your patches and configuration files (e.g.
@ -489,7 +490,7 @@
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>LINUX_VERSION</filename>:
The Linux kernel version you are using (e.g.
"3.6.3").</para></listitem>
"3.4").</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION</filename>:
The Linux kernel <filename>CONFIG_LOCALVERSION</filename>
that is compiled into the resulting kernel and visible
@ -508,8 +509,11 @@
The default <filename>PV</filename> assignment is
typically adequate.
It combines the <filename>LINUX_VERSION</filename>
with the SCM revision (from the SRCPV variable)
and results in a string using the following form:
with the Source Control Manager (SCM) revision
as derived from the <filename>SRCPV</filename>
variable.
The combined results are a string with
the following form:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
3.4.11+git1+68a635bf8dfb64b02263c1ac80c948647cc76d5f_1+218bd8d2022b9852c60d32f0d770931e3cf343e2
</literallayout>
@ -522,7 +526,8 @@
This variable in the example recipe is set
by default to a regular expression that matches
only the empty string, "(^$)".
This default setting triggers an explicit build failure.
This default setting triggers an explicit build
failure.
You must change it to match a list of the machines
that your new recipe supports.
For example, to support the <filename>qemux86</filename>