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DOC: Some grammar and spelling fixes for barebox-main.dox. 

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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/** @mainpage Barebox
Barebox is a bootloader that initializes a hardware and boots Linux and
Barebox is a bootloader that initializes hardware and boots Linux and
maybe other operating systems or bare metal code on a variety of
processors. It was initialy derived from U-Boot and captures up with
several of it's ideas, so users being familiar with U-Boot should come
into production quickly with Barebox.
processors. It was initially derived from U-Boot and retains several of
U-Boot's ideas, so users familiar with U-Boot should come into
production quickly with Barebox.
However, as the Barebox developers are highly addicted to the Linux
kernel, it's coding style and code quality, we try to stick as closely
kernel, its coding style and code quality, we try to stick as closely
as possible to the methodologies and techniques developed in Linux. In
addition we have a strong background in POSIX, so you'll find several
good old Unix traditions realized in Barebox as well.
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- <b>Environment Filesystem:</b><br>
In contrast to U-Boot, Barebox doesn't misuse the environment for
scripting. If you start the bootloader, it gives you a shell and
something that looks like a filesystem. In fact it isn't: it is a very
something that looks like a filesystem. In fact it isn't; it is a very
simple ar archive being extracted from flash into a ramdisk with 'loadenv'
and stored back with 'saveenv'.
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if they have the same name.
- <b>Clocksource:</b><br>
We use the clocksource API knwon from Linux.
We use the standard clocksource API from Linux.
- <b>Kconfig/Kbuild:</b><br>
This gives us parallel builds and removes the need for lots of ifdefs.
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to simulate devices.
- <b>Device Parameters:</b><br>
There is a parameter model in @a Barebox: each device can specify it's
There is a parameter model in @a Barebox: each device can specify its
own parameters, which do exist for every instance. Parameters can be
changed on the command line with \<devid\>.\<param\>="...". For
example, if you want to access the IPv4 address for eth0, this is done