[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/8] documentation: clarify Buildroot steps
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 24 14:38:35 UTC 2010
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
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docs/buildroot.html | 11 +++++------
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/buildroot.html b/docs/buildroot.html
index 0a0114a..0b87bff 100644
--- a/docs/buildroot.html
+++ b/docs/buildroot.html
@@ -185,15 +185,14 @@
<p>This command will generally perform the following steps:</p>
<ul>
<li>Download source files (as required)</li>
- <li>Configure cross-compile toolchain</li>
- <li>Build/install cross-compile toolchain</li>
+ <li>Configure, build and install the cross-compiling toolchain
+ if an internal toolchain is used, or import a toolchain if an
+ external toolchain is used</li>
<li>Build/install selected target packages</li>
- <li>Build a kernel image</li>
+ <li>Build a kernel image, if selected</li>
+ <li>Build a bootloader image, if selected</li>
<li>Create a root filesystem in selected formats</li>
</ul>
- <p>Some of the above steps might not be performed if they are not
- selected in the Buildroot configuration.
- </p>
<p>Buildroot output is stored in a single directory, <code>output/</code>.
This directory contains several subdirectories:</p>
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