X-Git-Url: https://git.rohieb.name/openwrt.git/blobdiff_plain/82287902c7a6a5a2cc7510cc5e1f520febfa62b9..7e450a1c869a5b227e3c91c4e71049059f1193e6:/docs/adding.tex diff --git a/docs/adding.tex b/docs/adding.tex index 34e13aea5..2695a764f 100644 --- a/docs/adding.tex +++ b/docs/adding.tex @@ -121,15 +121,15 @@ Scroll over the firmware to find printable words that can be significant. \subsubsection{Amount of flash memory} -Linux can hardly fit in a 2MB flash device, once you have open the device and -located the flash chip, try to find other the Internet its characteristics. If +Linux can hardly fit in a 2MB flash device, once you have opened the device and +located the flash chip, try to find its characteristics on the Internet. If your flash chip is a 2MB or less device, your device is most likely to run a proprietary OS such as WindRiver VxWorks, or a custom manufacturer OS like Zyxel ZynOS. -OpenWrt does not currently run on devices which have equal or less than 2MB of -flash memory. This limitation will probably not be worked around since those -devices are most of the time micro routers, or Wireless Access Points, which are -not the main OpenWrt target. +OpenWrt does not currently run on devices which have 2MB or less of flash memory. +This limitation will probably not be worked around since those devices are most +of the time micro-routers, or Wireless Access Points, which are not the main +OpenWrt target. \subsubsection{Pluging a serial port} @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ easily notice if the device uses a Linux kenrel or something different. \subsection{Finding and using the manufacturer SDK} Once you are sure your device run a Linux based firmware, you will be able to start -hacking on it. If the manufacturer respect the GPL, it will have release with the -device, a Sample Development Kit. +hacking on it. If the manufacturer respected the GPL, it will have released a Sample +Development Kit with the device. \subsubsection{GPL violations}