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diff --git a/site/gnu/index.php b/site/gnu/index.php index 10742a6..3b32619 100644 --- a/site/gnu/index.php +++ b/site/gnu/index.php @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ that are not in texinfo format. <ul> <li>Texinfo is the official documentation format, for all GNU software.</li> - <li>GNU Emacs has decent integration for editing Texinfo documents. See <i>Texinfo mode</i>. We should promote use of Emacs + <li>GNU Emacs has decent integration for editing Texinfo documents. See <em>Texinfo mode</em>. We should promote use of Emacs (the lead develop of libreboot is attempting to learn it). It's also very useful in general. We could document it to a limited extent, with quick tips, cheat sheets and links to more guides on other sites.</li> <li> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ <li> <s>Make libreboot possible to build from source without network access</s> - DONE! (only in release archives. development in git requires network access, for downloading the extra modules that go into the release archives. There is no way to avoid - this, due to what libreboot actually is - a boot firmware distribution, combining several projects, much like you have <i>GNU/Linux</i> distributions + this, due to what libreboot actually is - a boot firmware distribution, combining several projects, much like you have <em>GNU/Linux</em> distributions which are identical in concept). </li> </ul> @@ -113,13 +113,13 @@ <li> Modify the build system, to directly download (only in git. release archives would have them already) the build dependencies that libreboot currently tells the user to install from their distribution package repository, and build these from source, with - our own GCC (re-use coreboot's GCC, which libreboot already uses). This will make <i>complete corresponding source</i> provision easier, + our own GCC (re-use coreboot's GCC, which libreboot already uses). This will make <em>complete corresponding source</em> provision easier, because it would be automated; this is in contrast to the present setup, where the person distributing binaries has to include the sources for build dependencies from the distribution that they happened to use for compiling those packages. <ul> <li>This will also make everything self-contained, and coreboot already has integration for cross-compiling. We can make cross compilation of utilities for non-x86 architectures much easier, without relying on quirks from the user's GNU/Linux distribution, where the - only thing we need from their distribution is the necessary toolchain for building <i>libreboot's own version of GCC</i>, which would then take over</li> + only thing we need from their distribution is the necessary toolchain for building <em>libreboot's own version of GCC</em>, which would then take over</li> <li> However, do not install these dependencies, only self-host them in the libreboot source archive. Also provide an option for the user to ignore libreboot's GCC and dependencies, and use what their GNU/Linux distribution provides, when building from source. |