Currently GNU Boot has no manual, and it needs one to organize better
the information it provides to users and/or contributors.
Since we need to start somewhere, beside adding the manual license, we
describe a bit what the GNU Boot project is, and also ask for help for
completing the manual.
The GFDL 1.3 comes from the gnulib source code at the commit
d64d66cc4897d605f543257dcd038524a0a55215 ("autoupdate").
The beginning and the end of the document are also very similar to the
GNU Hello manual from the commit
24225d705684322f482135e8a2d679485fce0811 ("maint: remove the obsolete
gettext module") as they were copied and modified from that.
The 'dircategory Kernel' was chosen to be the same than GRUB, so they
both appear in the same group in the Emacs info reader ('info'
command in Emacs).
As for the "Overview" of GNU Boot it also contains background
information that will be needed later on and that needs to be
introduced right from the start:
- If people reading the manual do not understand what a boot software
is, all the rest will be too complicated to explain.
- We also need to explain where GNU Boot is physically located on the
computer from the start as we plan not to use the 'ROM' terminology
as it's confusing: ROM means read-only-memory, and so there is no
point of providing GNU Boot ROM images if the nonfree boot software
can't be replaced.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We have redundant news systems: GNU Boot is already using GNU and
Savannah's new infrastructure, so we don't need to duplicate that on
the GNU Boot website.
This lowers the maintenance now (as we need to do less work to publish
news).
But it also lowers the amount of work in the future as Untitled (the
static website generator that we use) handles news generation
differently from the rest of the pages, and since we planned to
migrate to Haunt, getting rid of news generation should probably
divide the amount of work needed to do the migration by two.
Thanks a lot to Adrien 'neox' Bourmault for the help with this patch
(neox gave me the links, told me about the capabilities of Savannah,
Planet, etc).
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
All the content on this page has now been reviewed by the GNU Boot
project.
This change is badly needed as the docs link is available in the
header of most pages of the website, and also because the docs page
also links to pages that were reviewed and that are perfectly valid,
so readers might stop there and not look at other pages below.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The information on how to find the GNU Boot version that is running is
outdated (for instance there is no lbversion, it also refers to older
Libreboot revisions). Because of that, we move it in a separate page
for now as this can then enable to remove the unreviewed tag to the
docs index page.
This is urgent and important as the docs link is available in the
header of most pages of the website, and also because the docs page
also links to pages that were reviewed and that are perfectly valid,
so readers might stop there and not look at other pages below.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
While this doesn't show the complete history of GNU Boot, it is at
least useful for fixing missing copyrights inside copyright headers.
Also I tried adding the first tarball releases of Libreboot, before it
was in git, inside the same git-history.dot and it turned out to be
way too messy as some arrows ended up mostly in the same place making
it impossible to distinguish which arrow went where without using
color or other ways of distinguishing them.
However the textual version of the tarball history turned out to be
easier to read/understand so we used that.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
neox: minor fix in the commit message
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Before being merged with the commit
dc6e1f32c1 ("Import website-build to
build the GNU Boot website."), website-build was a separate git
repository.
And so, even after the merge, until the commit
20d122e94a ("website-build: use website
from local git repository."), it still worked in the same way and
still downloaded the website from git.
This prevented merging the website and website-build directories
together as the GNU Boot repository also needed to be a valid Untitled
website repository as well.
Now after this commit, the website is built from the same git tree, so
we can simply adjust the build scripts to be able to move things
around.
In addition of making things more clear for contributors, it also
simplify the migration to haunt as with haunt we typically have the
haunt.cfg (and the autotools build code if needed) code in the top
directory and the markdown files in a subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
