From: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ref-manual/variables.rst: document the IMAGE_CONTAINER_NO_DUMMY variable
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:22:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251212-image-container-v1-1-fb6586d06813@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251212-image-container-v1-0-fb6586d06813@bootlin.com>
Added in OE-Core with commit f0645e172bb8 ("image-container.bbclass:
Error if not using linux-dummy").
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
---
documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index 71fe11b83..ac7b85992 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -3955,6 +3955,13 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
variable, see the :ref:`ref-classes-image_types`
class file, which is ``meta/classes-recipe/image_types.bbclass``.
+ :term:`IMAGE_CONTAINER_NO_DUMMY`
+ When inheriting the :ref:`ref-classes-image-container` class, this variable
+ can be set to "1" to allow a :term:`PREFERRED_PROVIDER` for the Linux kernel
+ (``virtual/kernel``) different than ``linux-dummy``.
+
+ This variable should be set from a :term:`Configuration File`.
+
:term:`IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES`
Specifies one or more files that contain custom device tables that
are passed to the ``makedevs`` command as part of creating an image.
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-12 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-12 10:22 [PATCH 0/2] Document the image-container class Antonin Godard
2025-12-12 10:22 ` Antonin Godard [this message]
2025-12-16 10:04 ` [docs] [PATCH 1/2] ref-manual/variables.rst: document the IMAGE_CONTAINER_NO_DUMMY variable Quentin Schulz
2025-12-16 10:50 ` Antonin Godard
2025-12-16 11:01 ` Quentin Schulz
2025-12-16 13:14 ` Antonin Godard
2025-12-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] ref-manual/classes.rst: document the image-container class Antonin Godard
2025-12-12 12:07 ` [docs] " Quentin Schulz
2025-12-16 9:22 ` Antonin Godard
2025-12-16 10:54 ` Antonin Godard
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