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authorTom Rini <[email protected]>2023-01-04 08:50:24 -0500
committerTom Rini <[email protected]>2023-01-04 08:50:24 -0500
commit8d6cbf5e6bc4e10e38b954763fa025caed517cc2 (patch)
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parent582e3c9fb2337c2f49faa73ac86dde25f4d56901 (diff)
parent60bba6e2052c281afe401247e10aebcb4c17049b (diff)
Merge tag 'efi-2023-01-rc5-3' of https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi
Pull request for efi-2023-01-rc5-3 Documentation: * Describe building documentation UEFI: * Add .data section to aarch64 EFI binaries and correct section flags * Correct sorting of capsules when updating * Populate console handles in system table Other: * Fix description of eth_env_[gs]et_enetaddr() return value * Avoid endless loop in sound play command
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+:
+
+Building documentation
+======================
+
+The U-Boot documentation is based on the Sphinx documentation generator.
+
+HTML documentation
+------------------
+
+The *htmldocs* target is used to build the HTML documentation. It uses the
+`Read the Docs Sphinx theme <https://sphinx-rtd-theme.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ # Create Python environment 'myenv'
+ python3 -m venv myenv
+ # Activate the Python environment
+ . myenv/bin/activate
+ # Install build requirements
+ python3 -m pip install -r doc/sphinx/requirements.txt
+ # Build the documentation
+ make htmldocs
+ # Deactivate the Python environment
+ deactivate
+ # Display the documentation in a graphical web browser
+ x-www-browser doc/output/index.html
+
+Infodoc documentation
+---------------------
+
+The *infodocs* target builds both a texinfo and an info file:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ # Create Python environment 'myenv'
+ python3 -m venv myenv
+ # Activate the Python environment
+ . myenv/bin/activate
+ # Install build requirements
+ python3 -m pip install -r doc/sphinx/requirements.txt
+ # Build the documentation
+ make infodocs
+ # Deactivate the Python environment
+ deactivate
+ # Display the documentation
+ info doc/output/texinfo/u-boot.info
+
+PDF documentation
+-----------------
+
+The *pdfdocs* target is meant to be used to build PDF documenation.
+As v2023.01 it fails with 'LaTeX Error: Too deeply nested'.
+
+We can use texi2pdf instead:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ # Create Python environment 'myenv'
+ python3 -m venv myenv
+ # Activate the Python environment
+ . myenv/bin/activate
+ # Install build requirements
+ python3 -m pip install -r doc/sphinx/requirements.txt
+ # Build the documentation
+ make texinfodocs
+ # Deactivate the Python environment
+ deactivate
+ # Convert to PDF
+ texi2pdf doc/output/texinfo/u-boot.texi
+
+Texinfo documentation
+---------------------
+
+To build only the texinfo documentation the *texinfodocs* target is used:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ # Create Python environment 'myenv'
+ python3 -m venv myenv
+ # Activate the Python environment
+ . myenv/bin/activate
+ # Install build requirements
+ python3 -m pip install -r doc/sphinx/requirements.txt
+ # Build the documentation
+ make texinfodocs
+ # Deactivate the Python environment
+ deactivate
+
+The output is in file *doc/output/texinfo/u-boot.texi*.
diff --git a/doc/build/index.rst b/doc/build/index.rst
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@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ Build U-Boot
docker
tools
buildman
+ documentation