[skip changelog] Document the boards.txt vid and pid properties #812
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Documentation update.
The boards.txt
vid
andpid
properties are not documented. These properties are becoming increasingly important as the modern Arduino development software takes advantage of them for features based on automatic board detection (e.g., Arduino Web Editor's automatic board selection,arduino-cli board attach <port>
)The
vid
andpid
properties of boards.txt are documented in the platform specification.No.