@@ -4141,6 +4141,12 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
the kernel. The default is "0" to disable this for reproducibility
reasons.
+ :term:`KERNEL_DEPLOY_DEPEND`
+ Provides a means of controlling the dependency of an image recipe
+ on the kernel. The default value is "virtual/kernel:do_deploy",
+ however for a small initramfs image or other images that do not
+ need the kernel, this can be set to "" in the image recipe.
+
:term:`KERNEL_DEVICETREE`
Specifies the name of the generated Linux kernel device tree (i.e.
the ``.dtb``) file.