diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst index 5a30ce379b..08ced7f90e 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst @@ -1374,18 +1374,18 @@ generation. ``kernel-fitimage.bbclass`` =========================== -The ``kernel-fitimage`` class provides support to pack a kernel Image, +The ``kernel-fitimage`` class provides support to pack a kernel image, device trees and a RAM disk into a single FIT image. In theory, a FIT -image can support any number of kernels, RAM disks and device-trees. +image can support any number of kernels, RAM disks and device trees. However, ``kernel-fitimage`` currently only supports limited usescases: just one kernel image, an optional RAM disk, and -any number of device tree. +any number of device trees. To create a FIT image, it is required that :term:`KERNEL_CLASSES` -is set to "kernel-fitimage" and :term:`KERNEL_IMAGETYPE` +is set to include "kernel-fitimage" and :term:`KERNEL_IMAGETYPE` is set to "fitImage". -The options for the device tree compiler passed to mkimage -D feature +The options for the device tree compiler passed to ``mkimage -D`` when creating the FIT image are specified using the :term:`UBOOT_MKIMAGE_DTCOPTS` variable.