doc: fix grammatical errors in README
Fix various spelling and grammatical errors in the README.
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
diff --git a/README b/README
index 00cd055..0fec497 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -402,11 +402,11 @@
CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
- requred during NOR boot.
+ required during NOR boot.
CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
- requred during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
+ required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@
time of U-boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
CONFIG_DEEP_SLEEP
- Inidcates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
+ Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
- Generic CPU options:
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@
CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
- When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
+ When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
@@ -1962,7 +1962,7 @@
CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
- Normally the LCD is page-aligned (tyically 4KB). If this is
+ Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
@@ -2038,7 +2038,7 @@
can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
bmp command.
-- Do compresssing for memory range:
+- Do compressing for memory range:
CONFIG_CMD_ZIP
If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
@@ -2401,7 +2401,7 @@
- define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
- define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
- define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
- If thoses defines are not set, default value is 100000
+ If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
for speed, and 0 for slave.
- drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
@@ -2434,7 +2434,7 @@
- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE5 for setting the register channel 5
- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED5 for for the speed channel 5
- - CONFIF_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for nummber of i2c buses
+ - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
- drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
- activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
@@ -2478,7 +2478,7 @@
additional defines:
CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
- Hold the number of i2c busses you want to use. If you
+ Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use. If you
don't use/have i2c muxes on your i2c bus, this
is equal to CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_ADAPTERS, and you can
omit this define.
@@ -2494,7 +2494,7 @@
define.
CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
- hold a list of busses you want to use, only used if
+ hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
@@ -2832,14 +2832,14 @@
CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
- Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
- after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
+ Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
+ after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
ms.
CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
- Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
+ Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
@@ -2991,11 +2991,11 @@
of the backslashes before semicolons and special
symbols.
-- Commandline Editing and History:
+- Command Line Editing and History:
CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
Enable editing and History functions for interactive
- commandline input operations
+ command line input operations
- Default Environment:
CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
@@ -3046,7 +3046,7 @@
CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
- intialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
+ initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
that so that the environment is not available until
explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
this is instead controlled by the value of
@@ -3092,7 +3092,7 @@
Define this option to use dual flash support where two flash
memories can be connected with a given cs line.
- currently Xilinx Zynq qspi support these type of connections.
+ Currently Xilinx Zynq qspi supports these type of connections.
CONFIG_SYS_SPI_ST_ENABLE_WP_PIN
enable the W#/Vpp signal to disable writing to the status
@@ -3767,7 +3767,7 @@
CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
- data. This is used for example on davinci plattforms.
+ data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
@@ -4000,7 +4000,7 @@
This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
- The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotton) when
+ The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
U-Boot relocates itself.
Pre-relocation malloc() is only supported on ARM and sandbox
@@ -4161,8 +4161,8 @@
The format of the list is:
type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
- access_atribute = [a|r|o|c]
- attributes = type_attribute[access_atribute]
+ access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
+ attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
entry = variable_name[:attributes]
list = entry[,list]
@@ -4182,7 +4182,7 @@
- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
- envirnoment variable in the default or embedded environment.
+ environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
@@ -4208,7 +4208,7 @@
- CONFIG_OMAP_PLATFORM_RESET_TIME_MAX_USEC (OMAP only)
This is set by OMAP boards for the max time that reset should
be asserted. See doc/README.omap-reset-time for details on how
- the value can be calulated on a given board.
+ the value can be calculated on a given board.
- CONFIG_USE_STDINT
If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
@@ -4309,7 +4309,7 @@
provision.
BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
-in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
+in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
U-Boot will hang.
@@ -4532,16 +4532,16 @@
table, or the whole device D if has no partition
table.
- "D:auto": first partition in device D with bootable flag set.
- If none, first valid paratition in device D. If no
+ If none, first valid partition in device D. If no
partition table then means device D.
- FAT_ENV_FILE:
It's a string of the FAT file name. This file use to store the
- envrionment.
+ environment.
- CONFIG_FAT_WRITE:
- This should be defined. Otherwise it cannot save the envrionment file.
+ This should be defined. Otherwise it cannot save the environment file.
- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC:
@@ -4724,7 +4724,7 @@
if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
- source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
+ source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
initializations.
- CONFIG_IDE_AHB:
@@ -4733,7 +4733,7 @@
When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
- is requierd.
+ is required.
- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
@@ -4846,7 +4846,7 @@
required.
- CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
- Only scan through and get the devices on the busses.
+ Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
@@ -5468,7 +5468,7 @@
npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
- silent_linux - If set then linux will be told to boot silently, by
+ silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
@@ -5555,7 +5555,7 @@
---------------------------------------------
For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
-when their values are changed. This functionailty allows functions to
+when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
@@ -5578,7 +5578,7 @@
with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
override any association in the static list. You can define
CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
-".callbacks" envirnoment variable in the default or embedded environment.
+".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
Command Line Parsing:
@@ -6343,7 +6343,7 @@
* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
to write it.
-* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
+* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
@@ -6351,7 +6351,7 @@
that.
Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
-normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
+normal global data to share information between the code. But it
turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
@@ -6482,7 +6482,7 @@
In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
-configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
+configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
@@ -6598,7 +6598,7 @@
Source files originating from a different project (for example the
MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
-reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
+reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
sources.
Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in