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diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt
index 5a311c3..34c76a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/sparse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sparse.txt
@@ -42,14 +42,26 @@ sure that bitwise types don't get mixed up (little-endian vs big-endian
 vs cpu-endian vs whatever), and there the constant "0" really _is_
 special.
 
+__bitwise__ - to be used for relatively compact stuff (gfp_t, etc.) that
+is mostly warning-free and is supposed to stay that way.  Warnings will
+be generated without __CHECK_ENDIAN__.
+
+__bitwise - noisy stuff; in particular, __le*/__be* are that.  We really
+don't want to drown in noise unless we'd explicitly asked for it.
+
+
 Getting sparse
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-With git, you can just get it from
+You can get latest released versions from the Sparse homepage at
+http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/josh/sparse/
+
+Alternatively, you can get snapshots of the latest development version
+of sparse using git to clone..
 
-        rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git
+        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/sparse.git
 
-and DaveJ has tar-balls at
+DaveJ has hourly generated tarballs of the git tree available at..
 
         http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/