updated to include patch utility info
diff --git a/src/part2/patches/README b/src/part2/patches/README
index b4cb598..fac583c 100644
--- a/src/part2/patches/README
+++ b/src/part2/patches/README
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
This directory contains sub-directories containing standard patch files,
named patches-Linux.txt and patches-Windows.txt, that can be used to update
-the SimpliciTI stack so that it can be built using the TI MSP430 compiler. Each sub-directory corresponds to a specified version of SimpliciTI.
+the SimpliciTI stack so that it can be built using the TI MSP430 compiler.
-For example, to "fix" version 1.0.6 of SimpliciTI:
+Each sub-directory corresponds to a specified version of SimpliciTI. For
+example, to "fix" version 1.0.6 of SimpliciTI:
o get and extract SimpliciTI-1.0.6 to SimpliciTI-1.0.6
o type the following:
cd SimpliciTI-1.0.6
@@ -12,3 +13,8 @@
you are building on a Windows based host; unfortunately, the patch file
format is not portable (ack!).
+Note: Early version of MKS patch are known to not work with the patches
+provided here. You should use GNU patch 2.5.4 or later. For Windows hosts
+you can obtain a pre-built patch utilty from
+http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm
+
