Barebox - Revision history

Rpjday: Typographical and grammer cleanup.

2012-10-28T21:00:17Z

Typographical and grammer cleanup.

Markv: fixed minor typo's

2011-11-04T11:40:09Z

fixed minor typo's

Plagnioj at 14:25, 28 October 2011

2011-10-28T14:25:13Z

Plagnioj at 14:05, 28 October 2011

2011-10-28T14:05:35Z

Plagnioj at 14:05, 28 October 2011

2011-10-28T14:05:11Z

Plagnioj at 14:03, 28 October 2011

2011-10-28T14:03:10Z

Rschwebel: some cleanup

2011-10-28T09:08:06Z

some cleanup

Plagnioj: /* Menu */ fix typo

2011-10-28T08:44:13Z

‎Menu: fix typo

Plagnioj: /* Sandbox */ missing word

2011-10-28T08:43:38Z

‎Sandbox: missing word

Plagnioj: /* Menu */

2011-10-27T11:24:49Z

‎Menu

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-The Barebox bootloader was started in 2007 as an attempt to work around the limitations that U-Boot shows through its age. Originally dubbed U-Boot v2, it now has a different name because its design goals are different and it has it's own community in the meantime.
+The Barebox bootloader was started in 2007 as an attempt to work around the limitations that U-Boot shows through its age. Originally dubbed U-Boot v2, it now has a different name because its design goals are different and it has its own community in the meantime.
 Barebox now supports arm, powerpc, mips, nios2, blackfin, x86 and a Linux userspace port called "sandbox".
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 = Build and configuration =
-On contrary of U-Boot, Barebox uses Kbuild for the build and Kconfig for the configuration.
+Unlike U-Boot, Barebox uses Kbuild for the build and Kconfig for the configuration.
 For the environment, a file system is used so you will not have to clobber any config.h file.
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 = Sandbox =
-One of the great thinks with barebox is the sandbox.
+One of the great things with barebox is the sandbox.
-Basically you can develop and debug generic feature on your host:
+Basically you can develop and debug generic features on your host:
 ) compile it
-for other arch than  x86 or ppc you need to use the next branch or the mainline
+for other arch than x86 or ppc you need to use the next branch or the mainline
-As I just recently fix the support for all host
+As I just recently fixed the support for all host
 ARCH=sandbox make sandbox_defconfig
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 = Menu =
-It's on ather great feature
+It's another great feature
 Add Menu Framework
 Introduce a menu framework that allow us to create list menu to simplify
-barebox and make it more user-frendly
+barebox and make it more user-frendly.
-This kind of menu is very usefull when you do not have a keyboard or a
+This kind of menu is very useful when you do not have a keyboard or a
-serial console attached to your board to allow you to interract with
+serial console attached to your board to allow you to interact with
 barebox
-For the develloper part,
+For the developer part, the framework introduces two API
-The framework introduce two API
 ) C

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 = Build and configuration =
-On contrary of U-Boot, Barebox use the Kbuild for the build and the Kconfig for the configuration
+On contrary of U-Boot, Barebox uses Kbuild for the build and Kconfig for the configuration.
-For the environment we a filesystem so you will not touch the config.h
+For the environment, a file system is used so you will not have to clobber any config.h file.
 [[image: Barebox Kconfig.png|600px]]
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 [[:File:ELCE-2010-Barebox-Booting-Linux-Fast-and-Fancy.pdf|Booting Linux Fast & Fancy]] (pdf)
 = Sandbox =

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 *DFU
 *Menu
 [http://www.barebox.org Barebox]

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 ***Host
 ***Devices
-**Frambuffer
+**Framebuffer
 *Filesystem
 *Posix Interface

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 **SPI
 **USB
 **Frambuffer
 *Filesystem
 *Posix Interface
 *Hush
 *Menu

← Older revision		Revision as of 14:03, 28 October 2011
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	Barebox now supports arm, powerpc, mips, nios2, blackfin, x86 and a Linux userspace port called "sandbox".		Barebox now supports arm, powerpc, mips, nios2, blackfin, x86 and a Linux userspace port called "sandbox".
		+
		+	Features:
		+
		+	*Devices/Drivers Model
		+	**ata
		+	**eeprom
		+	**I2c
		+	**nand
		+	**nor
		+	**net
		+	**mfd
		+	**MMC
		+	**serial
		+	**SPI
		+	**USB
		+	**Frambuffer
		+	*Filesystem
		+	*Posix Interface
		+	*Hush
		+	*Menu

	[http://www.barebox.org Barebox]		[http://www.barebox.org Barebox]

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 One of the great thinks with barebox, it's the sandbox.
-Basically you can develop and debug generic feature
+Basically you can develop and debug generic feature on your host
 ) compile it
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      umount - umount a filesystem
     version - print monitor version
   barebox:/
 = Menu =

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   menu -e -a -m boot -c reset -d "Reset"
   menu -s -m boot
 [[Category:Bootloaders]]