Re: [PATCH] A few small additions and corrections to README

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Jesper Juhl wrote:
Hi,

here's a small patch which
 - adds a few archs to the current list of supported platforms.
 - adds a few missing slashes at the end of URLs.
 - adds a few references to additional documentation.
 - adds "make config" to the list of possible configuration targets.
 - makes a few other minor changes.

Please consider for inclusion.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
---

 README                         |   17 +++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3e26472..b656f00 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-	Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org>
+	Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org/>
These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6. Read them carefully,
 as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the
@@ -22,15 +22,17 @@ ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher),
   today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and
-  UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH,
+  UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, Cell,
And AVR32 as of 2.6.19 :)
   IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS,
-  and Renesas M32R architectures.
+  Cris, Xtensa and Renesas M32R architectures.
Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures
   as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the
   GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has
   also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although
   functionality is then obviously somewhat limited.
+  Linux has also been ported to itself. You can now run the kernel as a
+  userspace application - this is called UserMode Linux (UML).
DOCUMENTATION: @@ -113,6 +115,7 @@ INSTALLING the kernel:
    version 2.6.12.2 and want to jump to 2.6.12.3, you must first
    reverse the 2.6.12.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying
    the 2.6.12.3 patch.
+   You can read more on this in Documentation/applying-patches.txt
- Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: @@ -161,6 +164,7 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
    only ask you for the answers to new questions.
- Alternate configuration commands are:
+	"make config"      Plain text interface.
 	"make menuconfig"  Text based color menus, radiolists & dialogs.
 	"make xconfig"     X windows (Qt) based configuration tool.
 	"make gconfig"     X windows (Gtk) based configuration tool.
@@ -303,8 +307,9 @@ IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:
- If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump
    as is, otherwise you will have to use the "ksymoops" program to make
-   sense of the dump.  This utility can be downloaded from
-   ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops.
+   sense of the dump (but compiling with CONFIG_KALLSYMS is usually preferred).
+   This utility can be downloaded from
+   ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/ .
    Alternately you can do the dump lookup by hand:
- In debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can
@@ -336,7 +341,7 @@ IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:
If you for some reason cannot do the above (you have a pre-compiled
    kernel image or similar), telling me as much about your setup as
- possible will help. + possible will help. Please read the REPORTING-BUGS document for details. - Alternately, you can use gdb on a running kernel. (read-only; i.e. you
    cannot change values or set break points.) To do this, first compile the



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