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[yocto-docs,05/14] ref-manual/variables: document the WIC_SECTOR_SIZE variable

Message ID 20241217-release-note-5-2-updates-v1-5-b189493b1b09@bootlin.com
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Antonin Godard Dec. 17, 2024, 9:27 a.m. UTC 
Added recently in oecore to control the sector size of wic images.

Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
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 documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

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Quentin Schulz Dec. 17, 2024, 10:37 a.m. UTC | #1 
Hi Antonin,

On 12/17/24 10:27 AM, Antonin Godard via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Added recently in oecore to control the sector size of wic images.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>

Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>

Thanks!
Quentin
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index ada761045e9bf37cb294c0b66007a9faab995ec3..bce8a1c7ed3af7115655f51aa0a6c558478d8c86 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -10194,6 +10194,17 @@  system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       Specifies the timeout in seconds used by the ``watchdog`` recipe and
       also by ``systemd`` during reboot. The default is 60 seconds.
 
+   :term:`WIC_SECTOR_SIZE`
+      The variable :term:`WIC_SECTOR_SIZE` controls the sector size of Wic
+      images. In the background, this controls the value of the
+      ``PARTED_SECTOR_SIZE`` environment variable passed to the ``parted``
+      command-line utility, used to generated the images. The default value is
+      ``512``.
+
+      For more information on how to create Wic images, see the
+      ":ref:`dev-manual/wic:creating partitioned images using wic`" section in
+      the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
+
    :term:`WIRELESS_DAEMON`
       For ``connman`` and ``packagegroup-base``, specifies the wireless
       daemon to use. The default is "wpa-supplicant" (note that the value