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authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2015-07-07 18:47:17 +0900
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2015-07-08 18:26:41 -0400
commit28fd00b7770b70caa84fac186dcbb09b65eebe5a (patch)
tree1b2725c72d8dea1f3d47a6fba649b27d0b9538f8
parente619c79ea60f9d16c62aca05cb513e2f244d0dc5 (diff)
README.distro: fix typos
The word "partition" is doubled. Keep decent forms for the following lines. Also, fix some other typos while we are here. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
-rw-r--r--doc/README.distro12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.distro b/doc/README.distro
index 0308a4c73a..9e4722a86e 100644
--- a/doc/README.distro
+++ b/doc/README.distro
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ decoupling distro install/boot logic from any knowledge of the bootloader.
This model assumes that boards will load boot configuration files from a
regular storage mechanism (eMMC, SD card, USB Disk, SATA disk, etc.) with
-a standard partitioning scheme (MBR, GPT). Boards that cannnot support this
+a standard partitioning scheme (MBR, GPT). Boards that cannot support this
storage model are outside the scope of this document, and may still need
board-specific installer/boot-configuration support in a distro.
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ that contains U-Boot, and that the user has somehow installed U-Boot to this
flash before running the distro installer. Even on boards that do not conform
to this aspect of the model, the extent of the board-specific support in the
distro installer logic would be to install a board-specific U-Boot package to
-the boot partition partition during installation. This distro-supplied U-Boot
-can still implement the same features as on any other board, and hence the
-distro's boot configuration file generation logic can still be board-agnostic.
+the boot partition during installation. This distro-supplied U-Boot can still
+implement the same features as on any other board, and hence the distro's boot
+configuration file generation logic can still be board-agnostic.
Locating Bootable Disks
-----------------------
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ any other bootloader) will find those boot files and execute them. This is
conceptually identical to creating a grub2 configuration file on a desktop
PC.
-Note that in the absense of any partition that is explicitly marked bootable,
+Note that in the absence of any partition that is explicitly marked bootable,
U-Boot falls back to searching the first valid partition of a disk for boot
configuration files. Other bootloaders are recommended to do the same, since
I believe that partition table bootable flags aren't so commonly used outside
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ kernel_addr_r:
The kernel should be located within the first 128M of RAM in order for the
kernel CONFIG_AUTO_ZRELADDR option to work, which is likely enabled on any
distro kernel. Since the kernel will decompress itself to 0x8000 after the
- start of RAM, kernel_addr_rshould not overlap that area, or the kernel will
+ start of RAM, kernel_addr_r should not overlap that area, or the kernel will
have to copy itself somewhere else first before decompression.
A size of 16MB for the kernel is likely adequate.