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Yocto boot partition vs boot rootfs directory

I need to mount my boot partition in order to perform software updates in my yocto built. I would expect to mount it in /boot but I see that there is a directory there already

I cant seem to find information about what this /boot directory is and why its needed. It contains the same .itb file that is in the boot partition

Do I need this boot directory? Who is it used by? Is there a way to tell yocto not to create it?

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Answer

Turns out that atmel dt overlay was putting overlay files in the /boot directory. These overlays aren’t relevent for my machine so I removed the dt-overlay dependency

https://github.com/linux4sam/meta-atmel/blob/07867084ec52b5580e55eb67c861823eaab5e4c3/recipes-bsp/dt-overlay-at91/dt-overlay-at91_git.bb#L51

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