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| author | Simon Glass <[email protected]> | 2023-08-14 16:40:39 -0600 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <[email protected]> | 2023-08-25 13:54:33 -0400 |
| commit | 84b08afcbb8f8b4402b940d87bf5822984eedb3d (patch) | |
| tree | 8a62bb1cda41f5fb2ff2cb0211e927e45645e18a /doc/develop/cedit.rst | |
| parent | cfc402db3954d7c852c322b232ad6d8842af6bf1 (diff) | |
expo: doc: Update documentation for persistent settings
Add mention of persistent settings in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/doc/develop/cedit.rst b/doc/develop/cedit.rst index 8f0a554ae91..63dff9d3f14 100644 --- a/doc/develop/cedit.rst +++ b/doc/develop/cedit.rst @@ -152,3 +152,18 @@ Themes The configuration editor uses simple expo themes. The theme is read from `/bootstd/cedit-theme` in the devicetree. + + +Reading and writing settings +---------------------------- + +Cedit provides several options for persistent settings: + +- Writing an FDT file to a filesystem +- Writing to U-Boot's environment variables, which are then typically stored in + a persistent manner +- Writing to CMOS RAM registers (common on x86 machines) + +For now, reading and writing settings is not automatic. See the +:doc:`../usage/cmd/cedit` for how to do this on the command line or in a +script. |