multiboot2: streamline before release

multiboot2/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 [package]
 name = "multiboot2"
 description = """
-Library that assists parsing the Multiboot2 Information Structure (MBI) from
-Multiboot2-compliant bootloaders, such as GRUB. It supports all tags from the
-specification including full support for the sections of ELF files. This library
-is `no_std` and can be used in a Multiboot2-kernel.
+Convenient and safe parsing of Multiboot2 Information Structures (MBI) and its
+corresponding tags. Usable in `no_std` environments, such as a kernel. An
+optional builder feature also allows the construction of the corresponding
+structures.
 """
 version = "0.22.0"
 authors = [

multiboot2/README.md

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 # multiboot2
 
-![Build](https://github.com/rust-osdev/multiboot2/actions/workflows/rust.yml/badge.svg)
 [![crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/multiboot2.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/multiboot2)
 [![docs](https://docs.rs/multiboot2/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/multiboot2/)
 
-Library that assists parsing the Multiboot2 Information Structure (MBI) from
-Multiboot2-compliant bootloaders, such as GRUB. It supports all tags from the
-specification including full support for the sections of ELF files. This library
-is `no_std` and can be used in a Multiboot2-kernel.
+Convenient and safe parsing of Multiboot2 Information Structures (MBI) and its
+corresponding tags. Usable in `no_std` environments, such as a kernel. An
+optional builder feature also allows the construction of the corresponding
+structures.
 
 It follows the Multiboot 2.0 specification
 at https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot2/multiboot.html and the
@@ -19,7 +18,7 @@ This library is always `no_std` without `alloc`. However, the default `builder`-
 feature requires the `alloc`-crate and an `#[global_allocator]` to be available.
 You need the `builder` only if you want to construct new boot information
 structures at runtime. For parsing, this is not relevant, and you can
-deactivate the default feature.
+deactivate the default features.
 
 ## Background: The Multiboot 2 Information Structure
 
@@ -40,9 +39,6 @@ There are many different types of tags, but they all have the same beginning:
  size         | u32
  other fields | variable
 
-All tags and the mbi itself are 8-byte aligned. The last tag must be the _end
-tag_, which is a tag of type `0` and size `8`.
-
 ## MSRV
 
 The MSRV is 1.70.0 stable.