From patchwork Tue Oct 20 10:36:32 2026 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Andrej Kozemcak X-Patchwork-Id: 101378 Received: from mta-65-226.siemens.flowmailer.net (mta-65-226.siemens.flowmailer.net [185.136.65.226]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.msgproc02-g2.4587.1792492599265225016 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:36:40 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=andrej.kozemcak@siemens.com header.s=fm2 header.b=h4/VdZAx; spf=pass (domain: rts-flowmailer.siemens.com, ip: 185.136.65.226, mailfrom: fm-1334352-20261020103635bb8c9c887800020714-noeajj@rts-flowmailer.siemens.com) Received: by mta-65-226.siemens.flowmailer.net with ESMTPSA id 20261020103635bb8c9c887800020714 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:36:35 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=fm2; d=siemens.com; i=andrej.kozemcak@siemens.com; h=Date:From:Subject:To:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc; bh=Oa2SeUfJZZKygW6Go2cq8eYpCLLVmPDZ9VuEM49C6/s=; b=h4/VdZAxaIqaTJRTpN2DjKH3OnodK1D41uC2XIq6yV5nQj+ectcEwqNcN3m2IvudDh2anG lXZMl5/ZQursop9zwXR5n1NzGuKXEIU5h3MT1WBFnjVNFRur65hEtRBfGh+i4CMNg7wJrQr0 3542yhDOlIWE6JY2yL+oQAnD3aw+Vj2RN4pnHlF+2AvwNvIko5DIU/LBNsdDxZEsGLnoUVS1 PxvhaEomGSm8kGjE/hq5768lbqs8J2RF6OytxSG8ZDzlzq9ug+Ihs6gRi/ToUJP6PCC05NZ9 jflGQrcM5xH6Db2HKb9n2pPBii9X29jGUBG9yW6jNNlD5e7vZFr3TvOg==; From: Andrej Kozemcak To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org Cc: Andrej Kozemcak Subject: [PATCH] ref-manual/variables.rst: document the QB_FSINFO variable Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:36:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20261020103632.1125052-1-andrej.kozemcak@siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Flowmailer-Platform: Siemens Feedback-ID: 519:519-1334352:519-21489:flowmailer List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from 45-33-107-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com [45.33.107.173] by lin-tor-korg-lkml-alma10-1 with HTTPS for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:36:45 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/10700 Added by commit b6c78bddf3 ("runqemu: support rootfs-dbg flag in QB_FSINFO") in OE-Core. Add documentation for the QB_FSINFO variable, which provides additional filesystem metadata to runqemu as a space-separated list of fstype:flag entries, covering WIC kernel-in-fs options and tar rootfs-dbg handling. Signed-off-by: Andrej Kozemcak --- Request from this email: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/248037?p=%2C%2C%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3Acreated%2C%2CQB_FSINFO%2C20%2C2%2C0%2C121544914 documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst index 5339721f4..025219d54 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst @@ -8205,6 +8205,20 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents. filesystem image extension found in :term:`DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE`. For example: ``ext4.zst``. + :term:`QB_FSINFO` + + The :term:`QB_FSINFO` variable provides additional filesystem metadata to + ``runqemu`` as a space-separated list of ``fstype:flag`` entries. For + example:: + + QB_FSINFO = "wic:no-kernel-in-fs tar:rootfs-dbg" + + For WIC images, use ``wic:no-kernel-in-fs`` or ``wic:kernel-in-fs`` to + specify whether the kernel is included in the filesystem. For tar-based + filesystem types, ``tar:rootfs-dbg`` makes ``runqemu`` use the debug + root filesystem image when extracting a tarball for NFS by appending + ``-dbg`` to :term:`IMAGE_LINK_NAME`. + :term:`QB_DEFAULT_KERNEL` When using ``runqemu``, the :term:`QB_DEFAULT_KERNEL` variable controls