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

[Francesco Valla <francesco@valla.it>]

Hi Antonin,

On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 09:34:42AM +0100, Antonin Godard wrote:
> 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.
> 

Uhm, I sent it twice to the list actually, without any reply. But... it
just occurred to me that I'm not subscribed to that list, so maybe my
message was droppe without notice?

I'll subscribe and resend in a couple of hours. Apologies.

> 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

Regards,
Francesco