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@@ -1,22 +1,28 @@ # Petitboot - A kexec-based bootloader -Petitboot is a bootloader designed to run in a Linux environment for OPAL on PowerPC/POWER machines and the Playstation 3. +Petitboot is an operating system bootloader based on Linux kexec. It can load any operating system image that supports the Linux kexec re-boot mechanism like Linux and FreeBSD. +Petitboot can load images from any device that can be mounted by Linux, and can also load images from the network using the HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP protocols. -Development -- +Current platform support includes PowerPC/POWER with OPAL, the Sony Playstation 3, and ARM64 with ACPI. Petitboot can be built and run on other platforms, but it will not include all available features. -Petitboot's home is at [ozlabs.org](http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=petitboot); clone it with ` git clone git://git.ozlabs.org/petitboot ` +See the petitboot [man pages](man) for more info. -Development and discussion occurs on the Petitboot mailing list: [petitboot@lists.ozlabs.org](https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/petitboot) +## Development -Building -- +Petitboot's home is at [ozlabs.org](http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=petitboot); clone it with `git clone git://git.ozlabs.org/petitboot`. -For an example of building Petitboot for distribution in a Linux image, see [op-build](https://github.com/open-power/op-build/tree/master/openpower/package/petitboot) +Development and discussion occurs on the Petitboot mailing list: [petitboot@lists.ozlabs.org](https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/petitboot). + +## Building + +For an example of building Petitboot for distribution in a Linux image, see [op-build](https://github.com/open-power/op-build/tree/master/openpower/package/petitboot) or [petitboot--buildroot](https://github.com/glevand/petitboot--buildroot). To build locally for development/debug (with the ncurses UI for example): ``` ./bootstrap -./configure --with-twin-x11=no --with-twin-fbdev=no +./configure make -```
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