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[yocto-docs,v2,05/14] ref-manual/variables: document the WIC_SECTOR_SIZE variable

Message ID 20241220-release-note-5-2-updates-v2-5-df29527f3fc5@bootlin.com
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Antonin Godard Dec. 20, 2024, 12:16 p.m. UTC 
Added recently in oecore to control the sector size of wic images.

Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
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 documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 11 +++++++++++
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index 193c4933cabfd3057ab71ccdedc184341984371f..40f2f7c99aa9d3ec9b9f8fc5799dcad385ef1dc5 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
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@@ -10198,6 +10198,17 @@  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