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author | Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> | 2012-02-06 11:24:40 -0500 |
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committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2012-02-07 11:55:12 +0100 |
commit | 0fbf2ef9e0bd42afb008628ce5bb21dd97ce4fb3 (patch) | |
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DOC: Some grammar and spelling fixes for barebox-main.dox.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/barebox-main.dox b/Documentation/barebox-main.dox index 90fce8ec8a..17575bf1c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/barebox-main.dox +++ b/Documentation/barebox-main.dox @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ /** @mainpage Barebox -Barebox is a bootloader that initializes a hardware and boots Linux and +Barebox is a bootloader that initializes hardware and boots Linux and maybe other operating systems or bare metal code on a variety of -processors. It was initialy derived from U-Boot and captures up with -several of it's ideas, so users being familiar with U-Boot should come -into production quickly with Barebox. +processors. It was initially derived from U-Boot and retains several of +U-Boot's ideas, so users familiar with U-Boot should come into +production quickly with Barebox. However, as the Barebox developers are highly addicted to the Linux -kernel, it's coding style and code quality, we try to stick as closely +kernel, its coding style and code quality, we try to stick as closely as possible to the methodologies and techniques developed in Linux. In addition we have a strong background in POSIX, so you'll find several good old Unix traditions realized in Barebox as well. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ good old Unix traditions realized in Barebox as well. - <b>Environment Filesystem:</b><br> In contrast to U-Boot, Barebox doesn't misuse the environment for scripting. If you start the bootloader, it gives you a shell and - something that looks like a filesystem. In fact it isn't: it is a very + something that looks like a filesystem. In fact it isn't; it is a very simple ar archive being extracted from flash into a ramdisk with 'loadenv' and stored back with 'saveenv'. @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ good old Unix traditions realized in Barebox as well. if they have the same name. - <b>Clocksource:</b><br> - We use the clocksource API knwon from Linux. + We use the standard clocksource API from Linux. - <b>Kconfig/Kbuild:</b><br> This gives us parallel builds and removes the need for lots of ifdefs. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ good old Unix traditions realized in Barebox as well. to simulate devices. - <b>Device Parameters:</b><br> - There is a parameter model in @a Barebox: each device can specify it's + There is a parameter model in @a Barebox: each device can specify its own parameters, which do exist for every instance. Parameters can be changed on the command line with \<devid\>.\<param\>="...". For example, if you want to access the IPv4 address for eth0, this is done |