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authorMukesh Ojha <mukesh02@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-08-07 19:03:22 +0530
committerStewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-08-09 17:34:12 +1000
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doc : Typos correction, case conversion, and replaces .txt with .rst
uncomppressed -> uncompressed fatten -> flatten weather -> whether .txt -> .rst Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh02@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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-rw-r--r--doc/opal-spec.rst12
-rw-r--r--doc/overview.rst6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/opal-spec.rst b/doc/opal-spec.rst
index eca8472..770b605 100644
--- a/doc/opal-spec.rst
+++ b/doc/opal-spec.rst
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ to as skiroot.
The OPAL Specification explicitly allows variation in this payload.
A requirement of the payload is that it MUST support loading and booting
-an uncomppressed vmlinux Linux kernel.
+an uncompressed vmlinux Linux kernel.
[**TODO**: expand on what this actually means]
An OPAL system MUST pass a device tree to the host kernel.
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Explicitly not covered by the OPAL Specification:
Explicitly allowed:
* Replacing the payload with something of equal/similar functionality
- (weather replacing skiroot with an implementation of Zork would be compliant
+ (whether replacing skiroot with an implementation of Zork would be compliant
is left as an exercise for the reader)
Payload Environment
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ under other platforms. For example, a single Linux kernel can be built to boot
under OPAL and under PowerVM or qemu pseries machine type.
The root node of the device tree MUST have compatible = "ibm,powernv".
-See doc/device-tree.txt for more details
-[TODO: make doc/device-tree.txt better]
+See doc/device-tree.rst for more details
+[TODO: make doc/device-tree.rst better]
The presence of the "/ibm,opal" entry in the device tree signifies running
under OPAL. Additionally, the "/ibm,opal" node MUST have a compatibile property
@@ -210,13 +210,13 @@ about the firmware environment.
The version property is a textual representation of the OPAL version.
For example, it may be "skiboot-4.1" or other versioning described
-in more detail in doc/versioning.txt
+in more detail in doc/versioning.rst
OPAL log
--------
-OPAL implementations SHOULD have an in memory log where informational and
+OPAL implementation SHOULD have an in memory log where informational and
error messages are stored. If present it MUST be human readable and text based.
There is a separate facility (Platform Error Logs) for machine readable errors.
diff --git a/doc/overview.rst b/doc/overview.rst
index e324ca2..e72599d 100644
--- a/doc/overview.rst
+++ b/doc/overview.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-skiboot overview
+Skiboot overview
================
-skiboot is firmware, loaded by the FSP. Along with loading the bootloader,
+Skiboot is firmware, loaded by the FSP. Along with loading the bootloader,
it provides some runtime services to the OS (typically Linux).
Source layout
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Essentially, we do this by doing an atomic fetch and inc and whoever gets 0
gets to be the master.
When we enter skiboot we also get a memory location in a register which
-is the location of a device tree for the system. We fatten out the device
+is the location of a device tree for the system. We flatten out the device
tree, turning offsets into real pointers and manipulating it where needed.
We re-flatten the device tree before booting the OS (Linux).