Minor fixes: - punctuation - capitalization - markup - wording Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-development-environment.xml b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-development-environment.xml index 2f1bd1610..dd12814fc 100644 --- a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-development-environment.xml +++ b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-development-environment.xml @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ The Development Host - A development host or + A development host or build host is key to using the Yocto Project. Because the goal of the Yocto Project is to develop images or @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ In summary, a single point of entry exists for changes into a "master" or development branch of the Git repository, which is controlled by the project¢s maintainer. - And, a set of developers exist who independently develop, test, and + In addition, a set of developers exist who independently develop, test, and submit changes to "contrib" areas for the maintainer to examine. The maintainer then chooses which changes are going to become a permanent part of the project. diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-yp-intro.xml b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-yp-intro.xml index dbf62cc16..87b7e40b3 100644 --- a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-yp-intro.xml +++ b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-yp-intro.xml @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Additionally, if you have used the Yocto Project to create an image or application and you find yourself not able to support it, commercial Linux vendors such - as Wind River, Mentor Graphics, Timesys, and ENEA could + as Wind River, Mentor Graphics, Timesys, and Enea could take it and provide ongoing support. These vendors have offerings that are built using the Yocto Project. @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ not part of a standard toolchain, you can easily customize that toolchain through specification of platform-specific tuning parameters. - And, should you need to use a third-party toolchain, + In addition, should you need to use a third-party toolchain, mechanisms built into the Yocto Project allow for that. @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Initial Build Times Can be Significant: Long initial build times are unfortunately unavoidable due to the large number of packages initially built - from scratch for a fully functioning Linux system. + from scratch for a fully-functioning Linux system. Once that initial build is completed, however, the shared-state (sstate) cache mechanism Yocto Project uses keeps the system from rebuilding packages that @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ To illustrate how layers are used to keep things modular, consider machine customizations. These types of customizations typically reside in a special layer, - rather than a general layer, called a BSP Layer. + rather than a general layer, called a BSP layer. Furthermore, the machine customizations should be isolated from recipes and Metadata that support a new GUI environment, for example. @@ -852,9 +852,9 @@ - This section provides an introduction to the choices or + This section provides an introduction to the choices of development methods you have when setting up your Build Host. - Depending on the your particular workflow preference and the + Depending on your particular workflow preference and the type of operating system your Build Host runs, several choices exist that allow you to use the Yocto Project. @@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ - Poky has a regular, well established, six-month release cycle + Poky has a regular, well-established, six-month release cycle under its own version. Major releases occur at the same time major releases (point releases) occur for the Yocto Project, which are typically in the @@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ select (DEB, RPM, or IPK) is used to roll up the software. - Different QA and sanity checks run throughout entire + Different QA and sanity checks run throughout the entire build process. @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ user-defined variables, and hardware configuration information. These files tell the - Open-Embedded build system + OpenEmbedded build system what to build and what to put into the image to support a particular platform. @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ For more detailed information on layers, see the "Understanding and Creating Layers" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual. - For a discussion specifically on BSP Layers, see the + For a discussion specifically on BSP layers, see the "BSP Layers" section in the Yocto Project Board Support Packages (BSP) Developer's Guide. @@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ developed by the OpenEmbedded community that has been pared down into a smaller, core set of continuously validated recipes. - The result is a tightly controlled and quality-assured + The result is a tightly-controlled and quality-assured core set of recipes. You can see the Metadata in the @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ patches to apply. Recipes describe dependencies for libraries or for other recipes as well as configuration and compilation options. - Related recipes are consolidated into a layer. + Related recipes are typically consolidated into a layer. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================