Pantavisor has quite a few configuration toggles, which usually have very readsonable defaults and might not need touching, but if you are a device maker you usually will have to do tweaks to those toggles in order to make pantavisor work in the way you want for your product vision.
This tutorial will show how you can change Pantavisor configuration flags on an installed system through the uboot env variable “localargs”.
How you can change that variable might depend a bit on your bootloader, but in most cases you can use a serial to get to your bootloader prompt and then use setenv to change the value of localargs in a one time or persistent manner.
For example to change the logserver output format in a persistence manner, you can set the log.server.outputs pantavisor configuration as follows:
u-boot=> setenv localargs $localargs pv_log.server.outputs=singlefile
u-boot=> saveenv
u-boot=> reset
This will make these arguments get appended to the kernel commandline (as you can find /proc/cmdline) and which pantavisor uses to allow overloading its buit in default configurations. The key/value syntax to do that is
pv_${configkey}=${configvalue}
For pantahub configuration flags you can use the same format, but with prefix ph_. Example:
u-boot=> setenv localargs $localargs ph_updater.interval=120
u-boot=> saveenv
u-boot=> reset