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chapter1: avoid derogatory term 'mess'
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Describe the intent of the EBBR specification using more positive terms.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@arm.com>
[Vincent: amend with proposals from Peter and Rob.]
Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@arm.com>
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Expand Up @@ -55,8 +55,9 @@ The challenge for EBBR is to define a set of boot standards that reduce the
amount of custom engineering required, make it possible for OS distributions to
support embedded platforms, while still preserving the firmware stack that
product vendors are comfortable with.
Or in simpler terms, EBBR is designed to solve the embedded boot mess by
adding a defined standard (UEFI) to the existing firmware projects (U-Boot).
Or in simpler terms, EBBR is designed to reduce the embedded boot differences by
implementing a widely accepted standard (UEFI) in existing firmware projects
(U-Boot).

However, EBBR is a specification, not an implementation.
The goal of EBBR is not to mandate U-Boot and Linux.
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