[PATCH 19/19] expo: doc: Update documentation for persistent settings
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Tue Aug 15 00:40:39 CEST 2023
Add mention of persistent settings in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
doc/develop/cedit.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
doc/develop/expo.rst | 1 -
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/develop/cedit.rst b/doc/develop/cedit.rst
index 8f0a554ae918..63dff9d3f140 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.
diff --git a/doc/develop/expo.rst b/doc/develop/expo.rst
index 61b6855c72f4..f13761995d3f 100644
--- a/doc/develop/expo.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/expo.rst
@@ -485,7 +485,6 @@ Some ideas for future work:
- Support unicode
- Support curses for proper serial-terminal menus
- Add support for large menus which need to scroll
-- Add support for reading and writing configuration settings with cedit
- Update expo.py tool to check for overlapping names and CMOS locations
.. Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
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