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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2015-04-16 13:15:29 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-04-17 13:28:31 +0100
commite2879c60e905d7566091d40eab330372fa001313 (patch)
tree94f2c7d46310ca1ce7a20248c9e18a4b86f2a021 /doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml
parentc34613eb69fd19770cbfc78ab8384221f10d5587 (diff)
downloadbitbake-e2879c60e905d7566091d40eab330372fa001313.tar.gz
bitbake-user-manual: Cleaned up parallelism note and formatted user input
I updated the note in the second chapter that discusses the role for BB_NUMBER_THREADS. The updates make it a bit clearer. Also scrubbed the manual for instances of user-supplied values to check how they are being formatted. I fixed the formatting to use the <replaceable></replaceable> tags so they are in italics. Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml
index 571424b99..17a74591a 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-execution.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
The execution process is launched using the following command
form:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
- $ bitbake &lt;target&gt;
+ $ bitbake <replaceable>target</replaceable>
</literallayout>
For information on the BitBake command and its options,
see
@@ -37,14 +37,16 @@
</para>
<para>
- A common way to determine this value for your build host is to run:
+ A common method to determine this value for your build host is to run
+ the following:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
$ grep processor /proc/cpuinfo
</literallayout>
- and count the number of processors displayed. Note that the number of
- processors will take into account hyper-threading, so that a quad-core
- build host with hyper-threading will most likely show eight processors,
- which is the value you would then assign to that variable.
+ This command returns the number of processors, which takes into
+ account hyper-threading.
+ Thus, a quad-core build host with hyper-threading most likely
+ shows eight processors, which is the value you would then assign to
+ <filename>BB_NUMBER_THREADS</filename>.
</para>
<para>
@@ -782,13 +784,13 @@
make some dependency and hash information available to the build.
This information includes:
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><filename>BB_BASEHASH_task-&lt;taskname&gt;</filename>:
+ <listitem><para><filename>BB_BASEHASH_task-</filename><replaceable>taskname</replaceable>:
The base hashes for each task in the recipe.
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><filename>BB_BASEHASH_&lt;filename:taskname&gt;</filename>:
+ <listitem><para><filename>BB_BASEHASH_</filename><replaceable>filename</replaceable><filename>:</filename><replaceable>taskname</replaceable>:
The base hashes for each dependent task.
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><filename>BBHASHDEPS_&lt;filename:taskname&gt;</filename>:
+ <listitem><para><filename>BBHASHDEPS_</filename><replaceable>filename</replaceable><filename>:</filename><replaceable>taskname</replaceable>:
The task dependencies for each task.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>BB_TASKHASH</filename>: