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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index 634c625da8c..b146eb86e49 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ Specify the output directory when building the kernel.
The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...".
Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT.
+KBUILD_DEBARCH
+--------------------------------------------------
+For the deb-pkg target, allows overriding the normal heuristics deployed by
+deb-pkg. Normally deb-pkg attempts to guess the right architecture based on
+the UTS_MACHINE variable, and on some architectures also the kernel config.
+The value of KBUILD_DEBARCH is assumed (not checked) to be a valid Debian
+architecture.
+
ARCH
--------------------------------------------------
Set ARCH to the architecture to be built.