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diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index fb7cf026..0227ef2f 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -103,20 +103,26 @@ The libreboot project has three main goals: - ***Make coreboot easy to use***. Coreboot is notoriously difficult to install, due to an overall lack of user-focussed documentation and support. Most people will simply give up before attempting to - install coreboot.\ - \ + install coreboot. + + + Libreboot attempts to bridge this divide, making sure that everything from building to installing coreboot is automated, as much as is feasibly possible. Secondly, the project produces documentation aimed at non-technical users. Thirdly, the project attempts to provide excellent user support via mailing lists and - IRC.\ - \ + IRC. + + + Libreboot already comes with a payload (GRUB), flashrom and other needed parts. Everything is fully integrated, in a way where most of the complicated steps that are otherwise required, are instead done - for the user in advance.\ - \ + for the user in advance. + + + You can download ROM images for your libreboot system and install them, without having to build anything from source. The build system is also fully automated, so building from source is easy if you @@ -166,7 +172,8 @@ If you are at least 127 commits after release 20150518 (commit message *build/roms/helper: add version information to CBFS*) (or you have any **upstream** stable release of libreboot after 20150518), then you can press C at the GRUB console, and use this command to find out what -version of libreboot you have:\ +version of libreboot you have: + cat (cbfsdisk)/lbversion This will also work on non-release images (the version string is automatically generated, using *git describe \--tags HEAD*), built from @@ -176,7 +183,8 @@ archives that you downloaded (if you are using release archives). If it exists, you can also extract this *lbversion* file by using the *cbfstool* utility which libreboot includes, from a ROM image that you either dumped or haven't flashed yet. In your distribution, run -cbfstool on your ROM image (*libreboot.rom*, in this example):\ +cbfstool on your ROM image (*libreboot.rom*, in this example): + $ ./cbfstool libreboot.rom extract -n lbversion -f lbversion You will now have a file, named *lbversion*, which you can read in whatever program it is that you use for reading/writing text files. @@ -187,7 +195,8 @@ For releases on or below 20150518, or snapshots generated from the git repository below 127 commits after 20150518, you can find a file named *commitid* inside the archives. If you are using pre-built ROM images from the libreboot project, you can press C in GRUB for access to the -terminal, and then run this command:\ +terminal, and then run this command: + lscoreboot You may find a date in here, detailing when that ROM image was built. For pre-built images distributed by the libreboot project, this is a @@ -214,7 +223,8 @@ libreboot. -Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016 Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>\ +Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016 Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org> + Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license or any later version published by Creative |