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authorAhmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>2020-09-14 22:03:09 +0200
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2020-09-15 14:46:05 +0200
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README: use lower-case barebox spelling
This is a bit of a churn, but at least the top level README can use the correct casing. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-Barebox
+barebox
-------
-Barebox is a bootloader that follows the tradition of Das U-Boot, while
+barebox is a bootloader that follows the tradition of Das U-Boot, while
adopting modern design ideas from the Linux kernel.
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ Features
except the ones really needed: moving the cursor and typing characters.
-Building Barebox
+Building barebox
----------------
-Barebox uses the Linux kernel's build system. It consists of two parts:
+barebox uses the Linux kernel's build system. It consists of two parts:
the Makefile infrastructure (kbuild), plus a configuration system
(kconfig). So building barebox is very similar to building the Linux
kernel.
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ If everything goes well, the result is a file called barebox:
# ls -l barebox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rsc ptx 114073 Jun 26 22:34 barebox
-Barebox usually needs an environment for storing the configuration data.
+barebox usually needs an environment for storing the configuration data.
You can generate an environment using the example environment contained
in board/sandbox/env:
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Documentation/ -> Sphinx generated documentation. Call "make docs" to
Release Strategy
----------------
-Barebox is developed with git. On a monthly schedule, tarball releases are
+barebox is developed with git. On a monthly schedule, tarball releases are
branched from the repository and released on the project web site. Here
are the release rules:
@@ -228,15 +228,15 @@ are the release rules:
Contributing
------------
-For any questions regarding Barebox, send a mail to the mailing list at
+For any questions regarding barebox, send a mail to the mailing list at
<barebox@lists.infradead.org>. The archives for this list are available
publicly at <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/> and
<https://www.mail-archive.com/barebox@lists.infradead.org/>.
-The same list should also be used to send patches. Barebox uses a similar
+The same list should also be used to send patches. barebox uses a similar
process as the Linux kernel, so most of the Linux guide for submitting patches
<https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html> also
-applies to Barebox (except the step for selecting your recipient - we don't
+applies to barebox (except the step for selecting your recipient - we don't
have a MAINTAINERS file, instead all patches go to the list).
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ License
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2005 Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
Copyright (C) 2018 Sascha Hauer, Pengutronix, and individual contributors
-Barebox is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+barebox is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free
Software Foundation.
@@ -266,6 +266,6 @@ the above copyright and warranty notices:
This eases machine processing of licensing information based on the SPDX
License Identifiers that are available at http://spdx.org/licenses/.
-Also note that some files in the Barebox source tree are available under
+Also note that some files in the barebox source tree are available under
several different GPLv2-compatible open-source licenses. This fact is noted
clearly in the file headers of the respective files.