Add a chapter to the HTML documentation describing how to retrieve the
U-Boot sources.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de>
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doc/build/index.rst | 1 +
doc/build/source.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 doc/build/source.rst
diff --git a/doc/build/index.rst b/doc/build/index.rst
index e0072afb5e..5051a97e70 100644
--- a/doc/build/index.rst
+++ b/doc/build/index.rst
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ Build U-Boot
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+ source
clang
tools
diff --git a/doc/build/source.rst b/doc/build/source.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4627c1f79e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/build/source.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Obtaining the source
+=====================
+
+The source of the U-Boot project is maintained in a Git repository.
+
+You can download the source via
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ git clone https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git
+
+A mirror of the source is maintained on Github
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ git clone https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot
+
+The released versions are available as tags which use the naming scheme::
+
+ v<year>.<month>
+
+Release candidates are named::
+
+ v<year>.<month>-rc<number>
+
+To checkout the October 2020 release you would use:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ git checkout v2020.10
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2.28.0
