documentation: poky-ref-manual - edits to machine and distro features

Fixes [YOCTO #3292]

I added more detail about the list of machine and distro features
to the introductory paragraphs of these sections.  This information
came from Paul Eggleton.

(From yocto-docs rev: a032f8e49222f6b628eb7d337b967da51a3d7581)

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 2012-11-16 08:54:10 -06:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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<para>
The items below are features you can use with
<link linkend='var-DISTRO_FEATURES'><filename>DISTRO_FEATURES</filename></link>.
Features do not have a one-to-one correspondence to packages, and they can
go beyond simply controlling the installation of a package or packages.
Sometimes a feature can influence how certain recipes are built.
For example, a feature might determine whether a particular configure option
is specified within <filename>do_configure</filename> for a particular
recipe.
</para>
<para>
This list only represents features as shipped with the Yocto Project metadata:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><emphasis>alsa:</emphasis> ALSA support will be included (OSS compatibility
@ -77,7 +86,16 @@
<para>
The items below are features you can use with
<link linkend='var-MACHINE_FEATURES'><filename>MACHINE_FEATURES</filename></link>.
This list only represents features as shipped with the Yocto Project metadata:
Features do not have a one-to-one correspondence to packages, and they can
go beyond simply controlling the installation of a package or packages.
Sometimes a feature can influence how certain recipes are built.
For example, a feature might determine whether a particular configure option
is specified within <filename>do_configure</filename> for a particular
recipe.
</para>
<para>
This feature list only represents features as shipped with the Yocto Project metadata:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><emphasis>acpi:</emphasis> Hardware has ACPI (x86/x86_64 only)
</para></listitem>