diff --git a/meta-sys940x/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend b/meta-sys940x/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend
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index 00000000..7bb50c32
--- /dev/null
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+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
+
+KMETA = "meta"
+
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_sys940x = "sys940x"
+KMACHINE_sys940x = "sys940x"
+KBRANCH_sys940x = "standard/sys940x"
+KERNEL_FEATURES_sys940x = " features/drm-emgd/drm-emgd-1.16"
+
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_sys940x-noemgd = "sys940x-noemgd"
+KMACHINE_sys940x-noemgd = "sys940x"
+KBRANCH_sys940x-noemgd = "standard/sys940x"
+KERNEL_FEATURES_sys940x-noemgd = " cfg/vesafb"
+
+SRCREV_meta_sys940x = "c2ed0f16fdec628242a682897d5d86df4547cf24"
+SRCREV_machine_sys940x = "b170394a475b96ecc92cbc9e4b002bed0a9f69c5"
+SRCREV_emgd_sys940x = "caea08c988e0f41103bbe18eafca20348f95da02"
+
+SRCREV_meta_sys940x-noemgd = "c2ed0f16fdec628242a682897d5d86df4547cf24"
+SRCREV_machine_sys940x-noemgd = "b170394a475b96ecc92cbc9e4b002bed0a9f69c5"
+
+SRC_URI_sys940x = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.8.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1;branch=${KBRANCH},${KMETA},emgd-1.16;name=machine,meta,emgd"