[yocto] dev manual definition of "Image" is totally wrong

Rudolf Streif rstreif at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Jul 25 11:43:11 PDT 2014


>
>   here:
>
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> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#yocto-project-terms
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> the definition of "Image" refers to the generated artifacts of a
> build, whereas the standard usage (as typified by the link) more
> correctly refers to things like core-image-minimal.
>

The term "image" is somewhat overloaded and if not detailed context
dependent. Image at least could be a "kernel image" or a "root file system
image". In the context of YP the term typically refers to a root file
system image of which core-image-minimal is an instance.

:rjs
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