@@ -10942,6 +10942,24 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
Specifies the timeout in seconds used by the ``watchdog-config`` recipe
and also by ``systemd`` during reboot. The default is 60 seconds.
+ :term:`WIC_CREATE_EXTRA_ARGS`
+ If the :term:`IMAGE_FSTYPES` variable contains "wic", the build
+ will generate a Wic image automatically when BitBake builds an
+ image recipe. As part of this process the Wic bbclass will call the
+ "`wic create`" command. The `WIC_CREATE_EXTRA_ARGS` variable is
+ appended to the internal "`wic create`" command to provide a
+ mechanism for the user to supply extra arguments to the
+ "`wic create`" command that is automatically run by BitBake.
+
+ One such useful purpose for this mechanism is to add the "-D|--debug"
+ argument to the "`wic create`" command. This increases the amount of
+ debugging information written out to the Wic log during the Wic creation
+ process.
+
+ For more information about creating Wic images, see the
+ ":ref:`dev-manual/wic:creating partitioned images using wic`" section in
+ the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
+
: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
Fixes [YOCTO #15509] Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com> --- documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)