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diff --git a/docs/buildroot.html b/docs/buildroot.html index ddfb20a74..28aefe4f8 100644 --- a/docs/buildroot.html +++ b/docs/buildroot.html @@ -39,22 +39,22 @@ <h2 id="about">About Buildroot</h2> - <p>Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that allows you to easily - generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem and a Linux - kernel image for your target. Buildroot can be used for one, two or all + <p>Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that allows you to easily + generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem and a Linux + kernel image for your target. Buildroot can be used for one, two or all of these options, independently.</p> - <p>Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems. - Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86 - processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC + <p>Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems. + Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86 + processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc.</p> - <p>A compilation toolchain is the set of tools that allows you to - compile code for your system. It consists of a compiler (in our case, - <code>gcc</code>), binary utils like assembler and linker (in our case, - <code>binutils</code>) and a C standard library (for example - <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU Libc</a>, - <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> or + <p>A compilation toolchain is the set of tools that allows you to + compile code for your system. It consists of a compiler (in our case, + <code>gcc</code>), binary utils like assembler and linker (in our case, + <code>binutils</code>) and a C standard library (for example + <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU Libc</a>, + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> or <a href="http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/">dietlibc</a>). The system installed on your development station certainly already has a compilation toolchain that you can use to compile an application that runs on your |