Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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diff --git a/Documentation/barebox-main.dox b/Documentation/barebox-main.dox
index 90fce8e..17575bf 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
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Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca
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