5.19.1. Using Persistent and Pre-Populated/dev

To use the static method for device population, you need to set the USE_DEVFS variable to "0" as follows:

     USE_DEVFS = "0"
                

The content of the resulting /dev directory is defined in a Device Table file. The IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES variable defines the Device Table to use and should be set in the machine or distro configuration file. Alternatively, you can set this variable in your local.conf configuration file.

If you do not define the IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES variable, the default device_table-minimal.txt is used:

     IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES = "device_table-mymachine.txt"
                

The population is handled by the makedevs utility during image creation: