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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. |