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diff --git a/doc/README.distro b/doc/README.distro index 0308a4c..9e4722a 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. |