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authorSteve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>2015-04-14 01:40:52 +0000
committerSteve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>2015-04-14 01:40:52 +0000
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+++ b/en/preparing/bios-setup/arm.xml
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@
</sect2>
<sect2 arch="armhf" id="armhf-uboot-images">
- <title>Debian-provided u-boot (system firmware) images</title>
+ <title>Debian-provided U-Boot (system firmware) images</title>
<para>
- Debian provides u-boot images for various armhf systems that can load
- their u-boot from an SD card at &armmp-uboot-img;. The u-boot builds
- are offered in two formats: raw u-boot components and a ready-made
- card image that can easily be written onto an SD card. The raw u-boot
+ Debian provides U-Boot images for various armhf systems that can load
+ their U-Boot from an SD card at &armmp-uboot-img;. The U-Boot builds
+ are offered in two formats: raw U-Boot components and a ready-made
+ card image that can easily be written onto an SD card. The raw U-Boot
components are provided for advanced users; the generally recommended
way is to use one of the ready-made SD card images. They are named
&lt;system-type&gt;.sdcard.img.gz and can be written to a card e.g.
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@
card wipes all previous contents of the card!
</para>
<para>
- If Debian provides a u-boot image for your system, it is recommended
- that you use this image instead of the vendor-provided u-boot, as the
+ If Debian provides a U-Boot image for your system, it is recommended
+ that you use this image instead of the vendor-provided U-Boot, as the
version in Debian is usually newer and has more features.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 arch="arm" id="uboot-macsetting">
- <title>Setting the ethernet MAC address in u-boot</title>
+ <title>Setting the ethernet MAC address in U-Boot</title>
<para>
The MAC address of every ethernet interface should normally be
globally unique, and it technically has to be unique within its
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@
administered address.
</para>
<para>
- On systems using u-boot as system firmware, the ethernet MAC address
+ On systems using U-Boot as system firmware, the ethernet MAC address
is placed in the <quote>ethaddr</quote> environment variable.
- It can be checked at the u-boot command prompt with the command
+ It can be checked at the U-Boot command prompt with the command
<quote>printenv ethaddr</quote> and can be set with the command
<quote>setenv ethaddr ca:ff:ee:12:34:56</quote>. After setting the value,
the command <quote>saveenv</quote> makes the assignment permanent.
@@ -94,31 +94,31 @@
</sect2>
<sect2 arch="arm" id="uboot-relocation-issues">
- <title>Kernel/Initrd/Device-Tree relocation issues in u-boot</title>
+ <title>Kernel/Initrd/Device-Tree relocation issues in U-Boot</title>
<para>
- On some systems with older u-boot versions there can be problems with
+ On some systems with older U-Boot versions there can be problems with
properly relocating the Linux kernel, the initial ramdisk and the
device-tree blob in memory during the boot process. In this case,
- u-boot shows the message <quote>Starting kernel ...</quote>,
+ U-Boot shows the message <quote>Starting kernel ...</quote>,
but the system freezes
afterwards without further output. These issues have been solved with
- newer u-boot versions from v2014.07 onwards.
+ newer U-Boot versions from v2014.07 onwards.
</para>
<para>
- If the system has originally used a u-boot version older than
+ If the system has originally used a U-Boot version older than
v2014.07 and has been upgraded to a newer version later, the problem
- might still occur even after upgrading u-boot. Upgrading u-boot
- usually does not modify the existing u-boot environment variables and
+ might still occur even after upgrading U-Boot. Upgrading U-Boot
+ usually does not modify the existing U-Boot environment variables and
the fix requires an additional environment variable (bootm_size) to be
- set, which u-boot does automatically only on fresh installations
+ set, which U-Boot does automatically only on fresh installations
without existing environment data. It is possible to manually set
- bootm_size to the new u-boot's default value by running the command
- <quote>env default bootm_size; saveenv</quote> at the u-boot prompt.
+ bootm_size to the new U-Boot's default value by running the command
+ <quote>env default bootm_size; saveenv</quote> at the U-Boot prompt.
</para>
<para>
Another possibility to circumvent relocation-related problems is to
run the command <quote>setenv fdt_high ffffffff; setenv initrd_high
- 0xffffffff; saveenv</quote> at the u-boot prompt to completely disable
+ 0xffffffff; saveenv</quote> at the U-Boot prompt to completely disable
the relocation of the initial ramdisk and the device-tree blob.
</para>
</sect2>