doc: Fix obvious typos and minor improvements

These are fixes to what looks like obvious typos.
Some minor improvments are also included, such as:
- Write "symbolic link" instead of symlink
- Correct capitalization for LLVM (all caps)
- Remove dead link and surrounding sentence

Signed-off-by: Adriano Carvalho <[email protected]>

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/doc/build/clang.rst b/doc/build/clang.rst
index 09bb988e923..a83ecb4fdc6 100644
--- a/doc/build/clang.rst
+++ b/doc/build/clang.rst
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ It can also be used to compile sandbox:
 FreeBSD 11
 ----------
 
-Since llvm 3.4 is currently in the base system, the integrated assembler as
-is incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-gnueabi-binutils
-is used instead. It needs a symlink to be picked up correctly though:
+Since LLVM 3.4 is currently in the base system, the integrated assembler is
+incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-gnueabi-binutils is
+used instead. It needs a symbolic link to be picked up correctly though:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The following commands compile U-Boot using the Clang xdev toolchain.
     gmake rpi_2_defconfig
     gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd" -j8
 
-Given that U-Boot will default to gcc, above commands can be
+Given that U-Boot will default to gcc, the commands above can be
 simplified with a simple wrapper script - saved as
 /usr/local/bin/arm-gnueabi-freebsd-gcc - listed below:
 
diff --git a/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst b/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
index d503764f9e3..5eb9e4ccb0a 100644
--- a/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
+++ b/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ course) to have an up-to-date database.
 
 The database will be in the root of the repository. No further modifications are
 needed for it to be usable by the LSP, unless you set a name for the database
-other than it's default one (compile_commands.json).
+other than the default one (compile_commands.json).
 
 Compatible IDEs
 ---------------
diff --git a/doc/build/tools.rst b/doc/build/tools.rst
index 5bfa05b2325..1cc8eb93230 100644
--- a/doc/build/tools.rst
+++ b/doc/build/tools.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Building tools for Linux
 ------------------------
 
 To allow distributions to distribute all possible tools in a generic way,
-avoiding the need of specific tools building for each machine, a tools only
+avoiding the need of specific building tools for each machine, a tools-only
 defconfig file is provided.
 
 Using this, we can build the tools by doing::
@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ installed all required packages below in order to build these host tools::
    * diffutils (3.7)
    * openssl-devel (1.1.1.d)
 
-Note the version numbers in these parentheses above are the package versions
-at the time being when writing this document. The MSYS2 installer tested is
-http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20190524.exe.
+Note that the version numbers in parentheses above are the package versions at
+the time of writing this document.
 
 There are 3 MSYS subsystems installed: MSYS2, MinGW32 and MinGW64. Each
 subsystem provides an environment to build Windows applications. The MSYS2
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ Launch the MSYS2 shell of the MSYS2 environment, and do the following::
 Building without Python
 -----------------------
 
-The tools-only builds bytes pylibfdt by default. To disable this, use the
+The tools-only builds pylibfdt by default. To disable this, use the
 NO_PYTHON variable::
 
    NO_PYTHON=1 make tools-only_defconfig tools-only