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| author | Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> | 2011-12-11 14:03:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2011-12-12 11:06:54 +0100 |
| commit | f159b75e8fcc8d196c6bd777c8051ed92bc47980 (patch) | |
| tree | 307e5f41b6bb76e6a2c42edb8f3d7cfe3ae5afe3 /README | |
| parent | 78c596252b55a1b02b5dfd913b10dfe44450ca08 (diff) | |
| download | barebox-f159b75e8fcc8d196c6bd777c8051ed92bc47980.tar.gz barebox-f159b75e8fcc8d196c6bd777c8051ed92bc47980.tar.xz | |
Some trivial grammar/spelling fixes for main README file.
A number of minor fixes related to spelling, grammar and
capitalization in the top-level README file.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ Barebox ------- Barebox is a bootloader that follows the tradition of Das U-Boot, while -adapting modern design ideas from the Linux kernel. +adopting modern design ideas from the Linux kernel. Features -------- -- A POSIX based file API +- A POSIX-based file API Inside barebox the usual open/close/read/write/lseek functions are used. - This makes it familiar to everyone who has programmed under unix systems. + This makes it familiar to everyone who has programmed under UNIX systems. - Usual shell commands like ls/cd/mkdir/echo/cat,... @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ Features - simulation target barebox can be compiled to run under Linux. While this is rather useless in real world this is a great debugging and development aid. New features - can be easily developped and tested on long train journeys and started - under gdb. There is a console driver for linux which emulates a serial - device and a tap based ethernet driver. Linux files can be mapped to + can be easily developed and tested on long train journeys and started + under gdb. There is a console driver for Linux which emulates a serial + device and a TAP-based Ethernet driver. Linux files can be mapped to devices under barebox to emulate storage devices. - device parameter support @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ Features - getopt There is a small getopt implementation. Some commands got really - complicated (both in code and in usage) due to the fact that U-Boot only - allowed positional parameters. + complicated (both in code and in usage) due to the fact that U-Boot + allowed only positional parameters. - editor Scripts can be edited with a small editor. This editor has no features @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Building Barebox ---------------- Barebox uses the Linux kernel's build system. It consists of two parts: -the makefile infrastructure (kbuild), plus a configuration system +the Makefile infrastructure (kbuild), plus a configuration system (kconfig). So building barebox is very similar to building the Linux kernel. |