Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] kernel-fit-image: support arbitrary loadables

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Tue Mar 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM CET, Francesco Valla via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
[...]
>> Thanks for submitting this. LGTM, but it'd be nice to have it 
>> documented as well.
>>
>> Could you add some details to the Yocto Project docs (e.g. in the 
>> "Variables Glossary" section) and submit it to 
>> docs@lists.yoctoproject.org?
>
> Yes, documentation here is pretty much necessary to understand how this 
> shall be used.
> I'll work on it as soon as possible.

Did you manage to come up with some documentation for this? I am catching up
with the latest changes from OE-Core and this appears to be missing.

As a starting point, we'd need documentation for the following variable in
https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs/tree/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst:

FIT_LOADABLES
FIT_LOADABLE_FILENAME
FIT_LOADABLE_TYPE
FIT_LOADABLE_ARCH
FIT_LOADABLE_OS
FIT_LOADABLE_LOADADDRESS

And an update to the class' documentation here:
https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs/tree/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst?id=5bfe4f9aecf542766dec727bedbb30b1f93ab64a#n1419

I think the key point is to show how these variables are translated into the fit
node. I think an example in the class documentation would be great for that.

These should be sent to docs@lists.yoctoproject.org.

Let me know if I can be of any help.

Thanks!
Antonin