From 6f6d0068196405b505bbde5dc0ab8645856d7f52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francis Rowe Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:14:18 -0400 Subject: docs/install/index.html#rom: Simplify it It is currently difficult to maintain, but not only that, the information is useless and confusing. --- (limited to 'docs/install') diff --git a/docs/install/index.html b/docs/install/index.html index aae4a97..bfefddd 100644 --- a/docs/install/index.html +++ b/docs/install/index.html @@ -55,28 +55,14 @@

List of ROM images in libreboot

- Libreboot supports the following (refer to the release page): + Libreboot distributes pre-compiled ROM images, built from the libreboot source code. + These images are provided for user convenience, so that they don't have + to build anything from source on their own.

-

- - The libreboot_ text at the beginning of the filename - for each archive will actually have VERSION_ appended. - -

- -

- The ROM images in each archive use the following naming convention: boardname_keymap_mode.rom + The ROM images in each archive use the following at the end of the file name, + if they are built with the GRUB payload: _keymap_mode.rom

Available modes: vesafb or txtmode. The vesafb ROM images are recommended, in most cases; @@ -84,7 +70,12 @@ by coreboot native graphics initialization.

- Keymaps are named appropriate/y according to each keyboard layout + keymap can be one of several keymaps that keyboard supports (there are quite a few), + which affects the keyboard layout configuration that is used in GRUB. It doesn't matter + which ROM image you choose here, as far as the keymap in GNU/Linux is concerned. +

+

+ Keymaps are named appropriately according to each keyboard layout support in GRUB. To learn how these keymaps are created, see ../grub/index.html#grub_keyboard

@@ -94,12 +85,9 @@

Libreboot comes with ROM images built for QEMU, by default:

- +

- Examples of how to use libreboot in QEMU: + Examples of how to use libreboot ROM images in QEMU: