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-rw-r--r--doc/build/clang.rst8
-rw-r--r--doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst2
-rw-r--r--doc/build/reproducible.rst2
-rw-r--r--doc/build/tools.rst9
4 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/build/clang.rst b/doc/build/clang.rst
index 09bb988e923..a83ecb4fdc6 100644
--- a/doc/build/clang.rst
+++ b/doc/build/clang.rst
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ It can also be used to compile sandbox:
FreeBSD 11
----------
-Since llvm 3.4 is currently in the base system, the integrated assembler as
-is incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-gnueabi-binutils
-is used instead. It needs a symlink to be picked up correctly though:
+Since LLVM 3.4 is currently in the base system, the integrated assembler is
+incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-gnueabi-binutils is
+used instead. It needs a symbolic link to be picked up correctly though:
.. code-block:: bash
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The following commands compile U-Boot using the Clang xdev toolchain.
gmake rpi_2_defconfig
gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd" -j8
-Given that U-Boot will default to gcc, above commands can be
+Given that U-Boot will default to gcc, the commands above can be
simplified with a simple wrapper script - saved as
/usr/local/bin/arm-gnueabi-freebsd-gcc - listed below:
diff --git a/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst b/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
index d503764f9e3..5eb9e4ccb0a 100644
--- a/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
+++ b/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ course) to have an up-to-date database.
The database will be in the root of the repository. No further modifications are
needed for it to be usable by the LSP, unless you set a name for the database
-other than it's default one (compile_commands.json).
+other than the default one (compile_commands.json).
Compatible IDEs
---------------
diff --git a/doc/build/reproducible.rst b/doc/build/reproducible.rst
index 8b030f469d7..1512129e374 100644
--- a/doc/build/reproducible.rst
+++ b/doc/build/reproducible.rst
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ This date is shown when we launch U-Boot:
./u-boot -T
U-Boot 2023.01 (Jan 01 2023 - 00:00:00 +0000)
-The same effect can be obtained with buildman using the `-r` flag.
+The same effect can be obtained with Buildman using the `-r` flag.
diff --git a/doc/build/tools.rst b/doc/build/tools.rst
index 5bfa05b2325..1cc8eb93230 100644
--- a/doc/build/tools.rst
+++ b/doc/build/tools.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Building tools for Linux
------------------------
To allow distributions to distribute all possible tools in a generic way,
-avoiding the need of specific tools building for each machine, a tools only
+avoiding the need of specific building tools for each machine, a tools-only
defconfig file is provided.
Using this, we can build the tools by doing::
@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ installed all required packages below in order to build these host tools::
* diffutils (3.7)
* openssl-devel (1.1.1.d)
-Note the version numbers in these parentheses above are the package versions
-at the time being when writing this document. The MSYS2 installer tested is
-http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20190524.exe.
+Note that the version numbers in parentheses above are the package versions at
+the time of writing this document.
There are 3 MSYS subsystems installed: MSYS2, MinGW32 and MinGW64. Each
subsystem provides an environment to build Windows applications. The MSYS2
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ Launch the MSYS2 shell of the MSYS2 environment, and do the following::
Building without Python
-----------------------
-The tools-only builds bytes pylibfdt by default. To disable this, use the
+The tools-only builds pylibfdt by default. To disable this, use the
NO_PYTHON variable::
NO_PYTHON=1 make tools-only_defconfig tools-only