Implement a proper rw_tryupgrade

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides
 many of the Solaris kernel APIs.  This shim layer makes it possible to
 run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal
 modification.  This can be particularly useful when you want to track
-upstream Solaris development closely and don’t want the overhead of
+upstream Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of
 maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
 primitives.
 
@@ -11,5 +11,24 @@ To build packages for your distribution:
     $ ./configure
     $ make pkg
 
-Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can
-be found at: <http://zfsonlinux.org>
+If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially
+released tarball you will need to generate the configure script.
+This can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing
+the GNU autotools for your distribution.
+
+To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin
+compilation:
+
+    $ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
+    $ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...
+
+The SPL comes with an automated test suite called SPLAT.  The test suite
+is implemented in two parts.  There is a kernel module which contains
+the tests and a user space utility which controls which tests are run.
+To run the full test suite:
+
+    $ sudo insmod ./module/splat/splat.ko
+    $ sudo ./cmd/splat --all
+
+Full documentation for building, configuring, testing, and using the
+SPL can be found at: <http://zfsonlinux.org>