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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +agl-yocto-kernel-meta +===================== + +Yocto Project kernel rich Metadata [1] for AGL based on YP's kernel rich +metadata [2]. + +Using Yocto Linux Kernel is recommended in "Yocto Project Board Support Package +Developer's Guide" [3]: + +> Kernel recipes in the BSP should be based on a Yocto Linux kernel. Basing your +> recipes on these kernels reduces the costs for maintaining the BSP and +> increases its scalability. + +YP advanced kernel metadata besides configuration fragments and patches, +realizes scc description files (scc stands for Series Configuration Control, but +the naming has less significance in the current implementation of the tooling +than it had in the past) which allow to: + +* group configuration fragments and patches into a reusable unit +* include scc files from other scc files +* besides BSP description scc file, additional scc files can be easily applied + by adding them to KERNEL_FEATURES variable + +and much more. + +[1]: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/4.0.2/kernel-dev/advanced.html +[2]: https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-kernel-cache +[3]: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/4.0.2/bsp-guide/bsp.html#released-bsp-recommendations |