[LinuxBIOS] PATCH: abuild manpage and small fixes.

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Tue Sep 19 20:22:30 CEST 2006


Hi,

here's a manpage for abuild, as well as some small fixes for the
romcc and flashrom manpages, plus license clarifications.


HTH, Uwe.
-- 
Uwe Hermann 
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.TH ABUILD 1 "September 19, 2006"
.SH NAME
abuild \- build LinuxBIOS images for all available targets
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B abuild
\fR[\fB\-abxVh\fR] [\fB\-t\fR vendor/board] [\fB\-p\fR dir]
[LBROOT]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B abuild
is a utility used to easily build LinuxBIOS images for all available targets.
.SH OPTIONS
The
.B "[LBROOT]"
parameter tells
.B abuild
where the root directory of the LinuxBIOS build tree resides. Per default
this is
.B "../.."
as the
.B abuild
script resides in
.BR "[LBROOT]/utils/abuild" .
.TP
.B "\-a, \-\-all"
Build previously succeeded ports as well.
.TP
.B "\-b, \-\-broken"
Attempt to build ports that are known to be broken.
.TP
.B "\-p, \-\-payloads <dir>"
Use payloads in
.B "<dir>"
to build images.
.TP
.B "\-t, \-\-target <vendor/board>"
Attempt to build target vendor/board only.
.TP
.B "\-x, \-\-xml"
Write an XML log file instead of a plain-text one.
The file will be called
.B abuild.xml
and will be created in the current directory.
.TP
.B "\-v, \-\-verbose"
More verbose output.
.TP
.B "\-h, \-\-help"
Show a help text and exit.
.TP
.B "\-V, \-\-version"
Show version information and exit.
.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs at http://bugzilla.openbios.org/.
.SH LICENCE
.B abuild
is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR romcc (1),
.BR flashrom (1).
.SH COPYRIGHT
2004 Stefan Reinauer
.br
2006 coresystems GmbH
.SH AUTHORS
Stefan Reinauer <stepan at openbios.org>
.PP
This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (v2 or later).
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Index: util/flashrom/flashrom.1
===================================================================
--- util/flashrom/flashrom.1	(Revision 2424)
+++ util/flashrom/flashrom.1	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>.
-.\" This manpage is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
-.TH FLASHROM 1 "July 26, 2006"
+.TH FLASHROM 1 "September 19, 2006"
 .SH NAME
 flashrom \- the universal LinuxBIOS flash utility
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -12,55 +10,56 @@
 .SH OPTIONS
 If no file is specified, then all that happens
 is that flash info is dumped and the flash chip is set to writable.
-
+.TP
 .B "\-r, \-\-read"
 Read flash and save contents into file.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-w, \-\-write"
 Write file into flash (default when file is specified).
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-v, \-\-verify"
 Verify flash against file.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-E, \-\-erase"
 Erase flash device.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-V, \-\-verbose"
 More verbose output.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-c, \-\-chip" <chipname>
 Probe only for specified flash chip.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-s, \-\-estart" <addr>
 Exclude start position. (obsolete)
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-e, \-\-eend" <addr> 
 Exclude end postion. (obsolete)
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-m, \-\-mainboard" <vendor:part>
 Override mainboard settings.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-f, \-\-force"
 Force write without checking image.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-l, \-\-layout" <layout.file>
 Read ROM layout from file.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-i, \-\-image" <name>
 Only flash image name from flash layout.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-h, \-\-help"
 Show a help text and exit.
-.\".PP
+.\".TP
 .\".B "\-\-version"
 .\"Show version information and exit.
 .SH BUGS
 Please report any bugs at http://bugzilla.openbios.org/.
 .SH LICENCE
 .B flashrom
-is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).
+is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-.BR romcc (1).
+.BR romcc (1),
+.BR abuild (1).
 .SH COPYRIGHT
 2000 Silicon Integrated System Corporation
 .br
@@ -78,5 +77,6 @@
 .br
 some others 
 .PP
-This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>,
+This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
+It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (v2 or later).
Index: util/romcc/romcc.1
===================================================================
--- util/romcc/romcc.1	(Revision 2424)
+++ util/romcc/romcc.1	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -1,230 +1,228 @@
-.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>.
-.\" This manpage is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
-.TH ROMCC 1 "September 7, 2006"
+.TH ROMCC 1 "September 19, 2006"
 .SH NAME
 romcc \- compile C programs into binaries that don't use any RAM
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B romcc
-.BR [ OPTIONS ]
-.IR "<source>" ".c"
+[OPTIONS]
+<source>.c
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B romcc
 is a C compiler which produces binaries which do not rely on RAM, but
 instead only use CPU registers.
-.br
+.PP
 It is prominently used in the LinuxBIOS project to compile C code which
 needs to run before the (Linux)BIOS has initialized the RAM, but can be
 used for other purposes, too.
 .SH OPTIONS
+.TP
 .B "\-o" <filename>
 Output file name.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-f<option>"
 Specify a generic compiler option.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-m<option>"
 Specify an architecture-dependent compiler option.
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-\-"
 Specify that this is the last option.
-.PP
 .SH "GENERIC COMPILER OPTIONS"
 .B "\-O"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-O2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-E"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-ftrigraphs"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-trigraphs"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fpp-only"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-pp-only"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-feliminate-inefectual-code"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-eliminate-inefectual-code"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fscc-transform"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-scc-transform"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-op"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-op"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-phi"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-phi"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-label"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-label"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-branch"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-branch"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-copy"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-copy"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-arith"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-arith"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-shift"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-shift"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-bitwise"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-bitwise"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-logical"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-logical"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fsimplify-bitfield"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-simplify-bitfield"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-finline-policy=always"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-finline-policy=never"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-finline-policy=defaulton"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-finline-policy=defaultoff"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-finline-policy=nopenalty"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-all"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-all"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-abort-on-error"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-abort-on-error"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-basic-blocks"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-basic-blocks"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-fdominators"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-fdominators"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-rdominators"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-rdominators"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-triples"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-triples"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-interference"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-interference"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-scc-transform"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-scc-transform"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-scc-transform2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-scc-transform2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-rebuild-ssa-form"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-rebuild-ssa-form"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-inline"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-inline"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-live-range-conflicts"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-live-range-conflicts"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-live-range-conflicts2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-live-range-conflicts2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-color-graph"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-color-graph"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-color-graph2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-color-graph2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-coalescing"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-coalescing"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-coalescing2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-coalescing2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-verification"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-verification"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-calls"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-calls"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-calls2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-calls2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fdebug-tokens"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-fno-debug-tokens"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-flabel-prefix=<prefix for assembly language labels>"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-\-label-prefix=<prefix for assembly language labels>"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-I<include path>"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-D<macro>[=defn]"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-U<macro>"
 .SH "ARCHITECTURE-SPECIFIC COMPILER OPTIONS"
 .B "\-mmmx"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mno-mmx"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-msse"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mno-sse"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mnoop-copy"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mno-noop-copy"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mcpu=i386"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mcpu=p2"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mcpu=p3"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mcpu=p4"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mcpu=k7"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mcpu=k8"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mcpu=c3"
-.PP
+.TP
 .B "\-mcpu=c3-2"
 .SH BUGS
 Please report any bugs to Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com>.
@@ -232,7 +230,8 @@
 .B romcc
 is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-.BR flashrom (1).
+.BR flashrom (1),
+.BR abuild (1).
 .SH COPYRIGHT
 2003-2006 Eric W. Biederman
 .SH AUTHORS
@@ -240,4 +239,6 @@
 .br
 Some contributions by others.
 .PP
-This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>.
+This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>
+for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
+It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (v2 or later).
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