We add platform requirements document to clarify OpenSBI
expectations from a RISC-V platform.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>

The OpenSBI generic platform works perfectly fine on the QEMU virt
machine so let's remove dedicated QEMU virt machine platform from
OpenSBI.

All QEMU virt machine related documentation in OpenSBI will now
suggest using OpenSBI generic platform.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

With the Kendryte K210 platform code cleanup, none of the code copied
from Kendryte standalone SDK remains and this platform code is now
entirely licensed under OpenSBI BSD-2-clause license. Update the
README.md and ThirdPartyNotices.md files to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

There are several places in the source tree that have:

  32bit, 32 bit, 64bit, 64 bit

Fix by using the conventional names with a hyphen.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Auer <lukas.auer@aisec.fraunhofer.de>
Acked-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

At present the exact details of building 32-bit or 64-bit OpenSBI
images are missing in the docs. This adds the missing part.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Auer <lukas.auer@aisec.fraunhofer.de>
Acked-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

- fix some broken hyperlinks
- add additional hyperlinks to references to external documents
- reformat some paragraphs to keep lines under 80 characters
- unify the enumeration style between different parts of the
  documentation
- fix spelling/grammar mistakes
- extend the copyright notice in README.md to be the same as the
  one in COPYING.BSD

Signed-off-by: Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>

We add CONTRIBUTORS.md file to provide a list of individuals and
organizations actively contributing to the OpenSBI project.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

Add information regarding the Apache License Version 2.0 of some of the
Kendryte/k210 platform files. Also repeat this information in a new
ThirdPartyNotices.md file.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>

Clarify OpenSBI components explanation.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

This patch renames <platform_sub_dir> to <platform_subdir> to be
consistent everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

Reformat to fit lines within 80 chars, fix hyperlinks, etc.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>

There are 2 markdown links that are currently broken in top-level
README.md. Fix them so that github could render the URL correctly.

This also fixes "No newline at end of file" warning.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>

This patch updates top-level README.md for steps required to build
and install documentation PDF.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

This patch does minor typo fixes in top-level README.md.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

The name CROSS_COMPILE is an industry standard used across
open-source project to specify cross-compiler prefix.

In fact, distro build systems such as buildroot and yocto
assume CROSS_COMPILE to be supported by projects added
as packages to these build systems.

This patch rename back CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX to CROSS_COMPILE.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

Some rewrite with a more formal style.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

Make it clear what this environment variable defines and update
the README.md file to explain that.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

The platform specific options will be PLATFORM_<xyz> and not
PLAT_<xyz> hence this patch fixes typo in top-level README.md.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

This patch renames "plat" to "platform" everywhere for better
readablility.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

This patch renames "blob" to "firmware" everywhere for better
and intutive naming.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>

This patch adds more details to top-level README.md based on
current state of OpenSBI.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>