docs/manual: update intro, make gender-neutral

Besides just updating a little terminology, remove the awkward
reference to "his" when referring to developers.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 59efb9037f)
Signed-off-by: Raphaël Mélotte <raphael.melotte@mind.be>
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Robert P. J. Day
2026-07-27 15:10:17 -04:00
committed by Raphaël Mélotte
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@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ filesystem with Buildroot).
Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems.
Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86
processors everyone is used to having in his PC. They can be PowerPC
processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc.
processors developers are used to having in their PCs, including
ARM (both 32- and 64-bit), MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V and more.
Buildroot supports numerous processors and their variants; it also
comes with default configurations for several boards available
comes with default configurations for hundreds of boards available
off-the-shelf. Besides this, a number of third-party projects are based on,
or develop their BSP footnote:[BSP: Board Support Package] or
SDK footnote:[SDK: Software Development Kit] on top of Buildroot.