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Jan 02 19:40:01 <estan> hi folks. where can i find docs on the @TYPE, @NAME and @DESCRIPTION header fields for machine configuration files? all machine configs i can find have them, but i can't find them in the docs.
Jan 02 19:43:11 <estan> is it simply a convention for documentation purposes, and they are not used/parsed by anything?
Jan 02 20:48:05 <paulbarker> estan: I've never seen any definition or docs for them in 7+ years so if you've searched and can't find any docs I'm inclined to assume there aren't any
Jan 02 21:50:20 <estan> paulbarker: alright, thanks :)
Jan 02 22:39:58 <RP> estan: those are really old/defunct and not really used
Jan 02 22:53:05 <estan> RP: alright. i saw them used in several places (e.g. all machine configs in poky, and in xilinx's machine configs), so thought i'd ask.
Jan 03 01:03:00 <estan> i'm a bit new to the ecosystem.. when doing IMAGE_FEATURES_append_<something> = "blah", will this do a deferred append to IMAGE_FEATURES? and if so, what does the <something> mean/refer to?
Jan 03 01:03:30 <estan> e.g. here xilinx are doing something like this: https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-petalinux/blob/master/recipes-core/images/petalinux-image-full.inc#L61-L69
Jan 03 01:06:33 <estan> ah i think i found it in the docs now.
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