README: update for crctest

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@@ -105,24 +105,20 @@ Configure will attempt to determine the target platform automatically.
 Windows
 -------
 
-On Windows Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to
-build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.7 from
+On Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to
+build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.8 from
 http://wixtoolset.org and run dobuild.cmd from the
 os/windows directory.
 
-How to compile FIO on 64-bit Windows:
+How to compile fio on 64-bit Windows:
 
- 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe). Install 'make' and all
+ 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/). Install 'make' and all
     packages starting with 'mingw64-i686' and 'mingw64-x86_64'.
- 2. Download ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-9-1-release/dll/x64/pthreadGC2.dll
-    and copy to the fio source directory.
- 3. Open the Cygwin Terminal.
- 4. Go to the fio directory (source files).
- 5. Run 'make clean'.
- 6. Run 'make'.
+ 2. Open the Cygwin Terminal.
+ 3. Go to the fio directory (source files).
+ 4. Run 'make clean && make -j'.
 
-To build fio on 32-bit Windows, download x86/pthreadGC2.dll instead and do
-'./configure --build-32bit-win=yes' before 'make'.
+To build fio on 32-bit Windows, run './configure --build-32bit-win' before 'make'.
 
 It's recommended that once built or installed, fio be run in a Command Prompt
 or other 'native' console such as console2, since there are known to be display
@@ -146,6 +142,7 @@ $ fio
        --version               Print version info and exit
        --help                  Print this page
        --cpuclock-test         Perform test/validation of CPU clock
+       --crctest[=test]        Test speed of checksum functions
        --cmdhelp=cmd           Print command help, "all" for all of them
        --enghelp=engine        Print ioengine help, or list available ioengines
        --enghelp=engine,cmd    Print help for an ioengine cmd
@@ -297,10 +294,10 @@ fio --client=<server1> <job file(s)> --client=<server2> <job file(s)>
 Platforms
 ---------
 
-Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OSX, NetBSD, Windows
-and FreeBSD.  Some features and/or options may only be available on some of
-the platforms, typically because those features only apply to that platform
-(like the solarisaio engine, or the splice engine on Linux).
+Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OSX, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
+Windows and FreeBSD.  Some features and/or options may only be available on
+some of the platforms, typically because those features only apply to that
+platform (like the solarisaio engine, or the splice engine on Linux).
 
 Some features are not available on FreeBSD/Solaris even if they could be
 implemented, I'd be happy to take patches for that. An example of that is