The QB_DEFAULT_BIOS allows setting the -bios parameter of QEMU, which
can be used to emulate U-Boot, for example.
(From yocto-docs rev: dc9a5aa19ca2a0b5ad866f0329b8a030542ca0c6)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit f2eef5268aa94b31e986e4eef4ce1fe0094b70c4)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Document the variables in qemuboot.bbclass that allow customizing how
the QEMU guest is instantiated.
(From yocto-docs rev: 3c485a4838d7ca721d2d00867ff3d98d9e999c69)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 392ef512b05da8170d5e329c2750b2ada0a06cbd)
[AG: remove QB_TAP_NAMESERVER, doesn't exist on scarthgap]
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Add trailing space to value field in :prepend assignments, in
order to avoid providing examples which could lead the users to risk
inadvertent string concatenation.
(From yocto-docs rev: 8496602a28b19fec9ee55dc45572b31a32c70443)
Signed-off-by: Niko Mauno <niko.mauno@vaisala.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit b2f611f498eb22ca42dc436e3cde0c60ad2ba72f)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Fix various broken links found using the linkcheck builder, in various
places of the documentation. For most, the replacing link is the
equivalent new link.
(From yocto-docs rev: 5f708a1bc31ae94dd3513615b0ce079aa7897628)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 358519ca6406a89fee42c45dcaf63a37a374f33c)
[AG: fix conflict in variables.rst, due to changes to new variables in master]
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
VMWare Player has been discontinued in 2024 so remove the link. What
seems to be remaining is VMWare Fusions and Workstation so provide that
link only.
(From yocto-docs rev: f139c98f658e83328169cb90d119855e43a5bc83)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7c969dcbebf5cccb28ccbf2370dc8b52cbd08974)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
I found this one by looking at the archive of the link on
https://web.archive.org and then locating the thread on
lists.yoctoproject.org by its title.
(From yocto-docs rev: a39ce713ec34964776cb7562c6bd7dad9e4b675d)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5e792ff01d463a7eca21b7be50124d7c10ff8559)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Add this variable to the variables glossary, and add links to it and
back to the do_strip() task for completeness.
(From yocto-docs rev: cc4b7ffb3b2558ae796decbd216302e253addf02)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit f43fc622d2fd6bc832a2993841b2020f86c6475c)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Those are part of the features_check class.
(From yocto-docs rev: 297003a537798e6a4beafdd4ad520ed1c47c355a)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit fb38ef19e67b31f855bddb61ad990020d5cef234)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
It's not clear why the non-existent "kernel_menuconfig" task was
documented in the reference manual, but it does not appear to have
ever existed so delete all references to it and replace with pointers
to rewritten "menuconfig" task.
(From yocto-docs rev: 5bd2aab3ad66bcc9f0b58e1b0643d71697a63da7)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit fdeabae4ba20e34c428ceb133ad41c4f3fedcf24)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Add the following to the variable glossary LICENSE entry:
- it is a required variable in an OE recipe
- it must be accompanied by LIC_FILES_CHKSUM, except in the
case where LICENSE = "CLOSED"
(From yocto-docs rev: 1b819d324780a699d9307a2d4e68c69b576ab748)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit a75f75fe86c339246b94b78c593c54647a75ba6a)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Add an explanation of the RM_WORK_EXCLUDE_ITEMS variable to both the
Reference Manual variables and classes sections.
(From yocto-docs rev: fa007992c5df04e51de4fbd8edbcf29583cb49f0)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 62c96090be7aeffe7010b70e8dfd5166e506140f)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Warn the developer that if they need to set "PACKAGE_ARCH" in a
custom packagegroup file, that setting must precede the "inherit
packagegroup" line in the packagegroup recipe file.
(From yocto-docs rev: 9d84e1ccddb2cf17641447721cd2b0b524ef872f)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 98a14fe885370d52a6f46e940834c725bad6933d)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
As an accompaniment to earlier commit
0d05dedd62a6d4c726f120a23654ede1f0b23d8e, correct that the
PACKAGE_EXCLUDE variable supports the DEB packaging backend.
(From yocto-docs rev: 7cb1b61247852c0693950f034aa88dcd6dc3accd)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 195fc0981996998ba2939bb9ce8770f396e5f438)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Those are defined in BitBake documented, and would be better documented
there. Add a link to the BitBake manual for these variables.
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: 3210b5375356ad7097ecbf27ffdb50189a0ea6fe)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit cec08390bad4f26b841ff6fc8752f6200acf31d3)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Add that the RSUGGESTS variable would be processed only by a
supporting package manager when installing packages from a
package feed, and add a link to the appropriate section in
the Developers Manual.
(From yocto-docs rev: 2c80b891d85e0a7d9b70fc7b4a9c032325b56eca)
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 48c832376cc3d33785d790a3e76b52ed2f8895bf)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
The reference to STAGING_DIR* variables in the description of
DEPENDS was misleading, as it pointed at STAGING_DIR which is
unrelated in this context.
(From yocto-docs rev: 48d15a62ed7c004fd6e1dced03923bac529c435e)
Signed-off-by: Adam Blank <adam.blank.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2da8e6334e3d3362c9177f78a1216156417903fc)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Slightly reword to emphasize the sysroots' roles during the build.
Drop double back-quote from the uses of '-native' to make it a bit
easier on the eyes.
(From yocto-docs rev: e98b2231e76243734820efc28895ab11d20b0330)
Signed-off-by: Adam Blank <adam.blank.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 15bbfeee88eee706e06b63116c9bf0cbfb2fd91c)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Slightly reword to emphasise the order of steps during staging.
Further clarify those variables' relation to STAGING_DIR* variables.
(From yocto-docs rev: 4b219d437a5674aa71b6b2544d1548987202203f)
Signed-off-by: Adam Blank <adam.blank.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit eeb22235d5310ed440692914851df0b7aac056a4)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Don't refer to it as temporary. Update the default value.
(From yocto-docs rev: 3786a02e4478c4e73531479d50d1be6e8dd8b4c7)
Signed-off-by: Adam Blank <adam.blank.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit a1432f24c94a26b372164704cf18b3c6a73b34f5)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Make it more evident, that it is first populated by files from
some recipes, and later used as source of those files for the
others (staging and sharing files).
(From yocto-docs rev: 156c7c685b97943bcfa5309f9656a4b9e05e44a3)
Signed-off-by: Adam Blank <adam.blank.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit cad256411e2bc380e27e2fc4ea3140476596c823)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
STAGING_DIR is not in direct relation to recipe-sysroot*
directries. Also it does not participate in packaging, but rather
in staging and sharing files among recipes.
(From yocto-docs rev: 0838936ad05a8d5ed410767f389d4fd1a4e379b3)
Signed-off-by: Adam Blank <adam.blank.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0ff189fcb82f5e845951c939197835d0a1daf87b)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Some distros were removed from the autobuilder 5 months ago:
* 070e6bf (config.py: Drop ubuntu2004 workers, 2025-10-01)
* 8238327 (config.py: ubuntu24010 was replaced with ubuntu2504, 2025-10-01)
Update their status in the supported distros list.
(From yocto-docs rev: 2c9de0d74659fef6d7b0054dfd76905fba6ef81d)
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Added by commit 35d7fe73bba1 ("ccache.bbclass: Make it can be shared
between different builds") in OE-Core.
Fixes [YOCTO #16052]
(From yocto-docs rev: 32818c927bde8014e855b10b1d78d3f09beec024)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 550ef8340b550f8d4e9c3d0672190dc09592c621)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a new section to release-process.rst to document the development
cycle of each release and namely the milestones and feature freeze
occuring after M3.
Fixes [YOCTO #15979]
(From yocto-docs rev: 1cc5321c162ce36079d661ea1d35c2694c20ed9b)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 77c04cc5944acda7575546a7434e014e4a75ba58)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Add documentation for the image-container class, which is a simple class
to generate an image suitable for creating a container.
This answers in part to questions asked in [YOCTO #14368].
It also adds documentation for IMAGE_CONTAINER_NO_DUMMY, which was added
in OE-Core with commit f0645e172bb8 ("image-container.bbclass: Error if
not using linux-dummy").
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: 85fb6e4a964ea2dea9c3083ba2c4ceb336f34b1a)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6ce00e5875eb3469fefd55cc22acaaeaf620053a)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Whinlatter is the new current Yocto Project release, mark it as an
active one. Move it as released in December 2025.
(From yocto-docs rev: b0ae6483dd916eea3d144466e597a8e86187d9f7)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6f8e97c6e529f3c47f45f34d9e04e3ad7bddd587)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Walnascar has stopped being updated a while ago, and Styhead is EOL
since May 2025.
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: 71b03c21dc9d8a9fd0b5cc92808a7944f6c7fe28)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 834de77b543de43ee3c1c12ca1d6277e67e126de)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Wherever possible, we should use bitbake-getvar as it's the recommended
tool so let's do that.
(From yocto-docs rev: b9453c7ce44a6bcae7cdc05f2b2cd47b525726e9)
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2293a3f2767895e9fb5c3e8f3ec11bb4951a7127)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Added by commit e478550c8cd8 ("openssl/fontconfig/bzip2: Use relative
symlinks instead of absolute ones (using a new class)") in OE-Core.
(From yocto-docs rev: a8687e4bb2e822670b6ad110613a12fa02943d3d)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit c0dc554eba7d421023ecc68a70b7a19df38628b0)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Mention the use of USE_NLS, INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS and the cross-canadian
class.
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: b16f19e8004d571e7a6eadfa34983781ba6a7634)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit d877e54f1c85cefc00dd674d60f2db81446bd95a)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Part of bitbake.conf, this variable allowing to enable or disable
translation was undocumented. Add a entry to the glossary.
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: 675b776390c8079deb8f1912dac44b574688a9c7)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 92a55345a56b5038c0344669daaa7a3a99dd0fc0)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Can be used in recipes that want to explicitly skip Ccache support when
the ccache class is enabled.
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: e4fb6cd20955046a397b63bfe57f6cb4020b9cbb)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit b1b4adc8d4d9d23ff6fd91bca632bb0f5277e72b)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
This variable does not apply to the scope of a single recipe, but rather
to the scope of the entire layer.
(From yocto-docs rev: a86f2e5d291b86dbf56aefab08f4d3b0e5529801)
Signed-off-by: João Marcos Costa <joaomarcos.costa@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit eec26e11adb6e3a9c4f53f825b9a1730c9ddee12)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
