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U-Boot uses environment variables for storing device setup data. It usually needs to be accessed by a bootloader, kernel and often user-space. This binding allows describing environment data located in a raw flash partition. It's treated as NVMEM device and can be reused later for other storage devices. Using DT should be cleaner than hardcoding & duplicating such info in multiple places. Bootloader & kernel can share DTS and user-space can try reading it too or just have correct data exposed by a kernel. A custom "compatible" string allows system to automatically load relevant NVMEM driver but phandle can be also used for reading raw location. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220228131250.16943-1-zajec5@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.