doc: dfu: fix a handful of typos

Reword some sentences, add missing periods and fix various typos in the
dfu documentation.

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Signed-off-by: Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek@baylibre.com>
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@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU)
Overview
--------
The Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) allows to download and upload firmware
to/from U-Boot connected over USB.
Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) enables the download and upload of firmware
to/from U-Boot while connected over USB.
U-Boot follows the Universal Serial Bus Device Class Specification for
Device Firmware Upgrade Version 1.1 the USB forum (DFU v1.1 in www.usb.org).
Device Firmware Upgrade Version 1.1 from the USB forum (DFU v1.1 in www.usb.org).
U-Boot implements this DFU capability (CONFIG_DFU) with the command dfu
(cmd/dfu.c / CONFIG_CMD_DFU) based on:
@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ target (for example OTP), only based on the weak functions:
Configuration Options
---------------------
The following configuration option are relevant for device firmware upgrade:
The following configuration options are relevant to device firmware upgrade:
* CONFIG_DFU
* CONFIG_DFU_OVER_USB
@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ The following configuration option are relevant for device firmware upgrade:
Environment variables
---------------------
The dfu command uses 3 environments variables:
The dfu command uses 3 environment variables:
dfu_alt_info
The DFU setting for the USB download gadget with a semicolon separated
@ -90,17 +90,17 @@ Commands
--------
dfu <USB_controller> [<interface> <dev>] list
list the alternate device defined in *dfu_alt_info*
List the alternate device defined in *dfu_alt_info*.
dfu <USB_controller> [<interface> <dev>] [<timeout>]
start the dfu stack on the USB instance with the selected medium
Start the dfu stack on the USB instance with the selected medium
backend and use the *dfu_alt_info* variable to configure the
alternate setting and link each one with the medium
The dfu command continue until receive a ^C in console or
a DFU detach transaction from HOST. If CONFIG_DFU_TIMEOUT option
is enabled and <timeout> parameter is present in the command line,
alternate setting and link each one with the medium.
The dfu command continues until it receives a ^C in the console or
a DFU detach transaction from the HOST. If the CONFIG_DFU_TIMEOUT option
is enabled and a <timeout> parameter is present in the command line,
the DFU operation will be aborted automatically after <timeout>
seconds of waiting remote to initiate DFU session.
seconds of waiting for the remote to initiate a DFU session.
The possible values of <interface> are (with <USB controller> = 0 in the dfu
command example)
@ -139,11 +139,11 @@ mmc
u-boot raw 0x80 0x800;uImage ext4 0 2
If don't want to flash given image file to storage, use "skip" type
entity.
If you don't want to flash the given image file to storage, use the "skip"
type entity.
- It can be used to protect flashing wrong image for the specific board.
- Especailly, this layout will be useful when thor protocol is used,
- It can be used to protect from flashing the wrong image for the specific board.
- Especially, this layout will be useful when the thor protocol is used,
which performs flashing in batch mode, where more than one file is
processed.
@ -153,18 +153,18 @@ mmc
u-boot-<board1>.bin raw 0x80 0x800; u-boot-<board2>.bin skip 0 0
When flashing new system image requires do some more complex things
than just writing data to the storage medium, one can use 'script'
type. Data written to such entity will be executed as a command list
in the u-boot's shell. This for example allows to re-create partition
layout and even set new *dfu_alt_info* for the newly created paritions.
Such script would look like::
When flashing a new system image requires you to do some more complex
things than just writing data to the storage medium, one can use 'script'
type. Data written to such an entity will be executed as a command list
in the u-boot's shell. This for example allows you to re-create a partition
layout and even set a new *dfu_alt_info* for the newly created partitions.
Such a script would look like::
setenv dfu_alt_info ...
setenv mbr_parts ...
mbr write ...
Please note that this means that user will be able to execute any
Please note that this means the user will be able to execute any
arbitrary commands just like in the u-boot's shell.
nand
@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ sf
each element in *dfu_alt_info* being either of:
* <name> raw <offset> <size> raw access to sf device
* <name> part <dev_id> <part_id> raw acces to partition
* <name> partubi <dev_id> <part_id> raw acces to ubi partition
* <name> part <dev_id> <part_id> raw access to partition
* <name> partubi <dev_id> <part_id> raw access to ubi partition
with
@ -288,17 +288,17 @@ Callbacks
The weak callback functions can be implemented to manage specific behavior
dfu_initiated_callback
called when the DFU transaction is started, used to initiase the device
called when the DFU transaction is started, used to initialize the device
dfu_flush_callback
called at the end of the DFU write after DFU manifestation, used to manage
the device when DFU transaction is closed
the device when the DFU transaction is closed
Host tools
----------
When U-Boot runs the dfu stack, the DFU host tools can be used
to send/receive firmwares on each configurated alternate.
to send/receive firmware images on each configured alternate.
For example dfu-util is a host side implementation of the DFU 1.1
specifications(http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/) which works with U-Boot.
@ -409,8 +409,8 @@ Same example with MTD backend
Example 3
firmware located in SD Card (mmc) and virtual partition on OTP and PMIC not
volatile memory
firmware located in SD Card (mmc) and virtual partition on OTP and PMIC
non-volatile memory
- alternate 1 (alt=1) for scard
- alternate 2 (alt=2) for OTP (virtual)