README

                 xboot <http://xboot.org>


WHAT IS THE XBOOT
	xboot is the extensible bootloader for embedded system,
	based portable idea and powerful function.


XBOOT'S LOGO
	xboot have a very beautiful character logo, see below and
	enjoy it.
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  _  _ | |___ _____ _____ _| |_                   
 \ \/ /|  _  |  _  |  _  |_   _|  (C) 2007-2016   
  )  ( | |_| | |_| | |_| | | |____JIANJUN.JIANG__ 
 /_/\_\|_____|_____|_____| |_____________________|

	
XBOOT'S VERSION
	you can view the infomation of version using 'version'
	command in the xboot's shell.


XBOOT'S AUTHOR
	Jianjun Jiang <8192542@qq.com>
	see the file of CREDITS for details.


XBOOT'S COPYRIGHT
	GPLv3, see COPYING for details.


THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE
	http://xboot.org, the forum to talk about it.


XBOOT'S INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
	http://pan.baidu.com/s/1i3ImG0d

THE TOOLCHAINS FOR ARM PLATFORM
	http://pan.baidu.com/s/1dDtssIt

TO COMPILE XBOOT
	just running below commands in xboot's root directory, or
	using xboot's IDE directly.
	
	make clean
	make CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/arm-none-eabi- PLATFORM=arm32-realview

	"CROSS_COMPILE" for your cross compiler
	"PLATFORM" for your hardware machine which will be compiled


RUNNING XBOOT
	if you have no hardware platform for running xboot, you
	can using a simulator, such as qemu-system-arm in tools
	directory.