[yocto] how to know Poky kernel version before running it

[Steve Pavao]

Is there a definitive way to know at/after build time what kernel version is being built via a particular bitbake of Poky?

I don’t have the board on hand to boot the result of my work right now; it is a scout build for a board I’m getting soon.

I’m trying to figure it out by browsing the console-latest.log and looking for the highest kernel version I can observe from the recipes used. Is there a better way to find this out at build time?

Knowing the kernel version would help me decide what version of a patch to apply to go along with it.

Steve Pavao
Korg R&D

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[Vincent Prince]

Something like following command will give you every variables for kernel
recipe:

bitbake -e virtual/kernel | egrep '^[A-Z][A-Z_]*'

You will find prefered version and source url variables.

Post by Steve Pavao
Is there a definitive way to know at/after build time what kernel version
is being built via a particular bitbake of Poky?
I don’t have the board on hand to boot the result of my work right now; it
is a scout build for a board I’m getting soon.
I’m trying to figure it out by browsing the console-latest.log and looking
for the highest kernel version I can observe from the recipes used. Is
there a better way to find this out at build time?
Knowing the kernel version would help me decide what version of a patch to
apply to go along with it.
Steve Pavao
Korg R&D
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