diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
index 4aa3c58309..50abd3cb5c 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
@@ -219,6 +219,12 @@
         You can think of <filename>gcc-cross</filename> simply as an
         automatically generated cross-compiler that is used internally within
         BitBake only.
+        <note>
+            The extensible SDK does not use
+            <filename>gcc-cross-canadian</filename> since the SDK ships
+            a copy of the OpenEmbedded build system and the sysroot contains
+            <filename>gcc-cross</filename>.
+        </note>
     </para>
 
     <para>