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+.\" Copyright (C) 2009 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2009 Sony Corp.
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+.\"
+.\" Maintainer's Notes:
+.\" * For syntax help see the man pages for 'mdoc' and 'mdoc.samples'.
+.\" * To check syntax use this:
+.\" 'groff -C -mtty-char -Tutf8 -man pb-cui.8'.
+.\" * To check format use this: 'less pb-cui.8'.
+.\"
+.Dd ""
+.Dt pb-cui 8
+.Os
+.\"
+.Sh NAME
+.\" ====
+.Nm pb-cui
+.Nd Petitboot ncurses bootloader UI
+.\"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.\" ========
+.Nm
+.Op Fl h, -help
+.Op Fl l, -log Ar log-file
+.Op Fl V, -version
+.\"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.\" ===========
+pb-cui is an ncurses based interface to the Petitboot bootloader.
+.Pp
+Petitboot is a Linux kexec based bootloader that supports loading Linux
+kernel and initrd images from any device that can be mounted by Linux.
+It can also load images from the network using the
+HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP
+protocols.
+.\"
+.Sh OPTIONS
+.\" =======
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.\"
+.It Fl h, -help
+Print a help message.
+.\"
+.It Fl l, -log Ar log-file
+Log messages to the file
+.Ar log-file .
+The default log is a file pb-cui.log in the directory where pb-cui
+is started. New messages are appended to an existing log file.
+.\"
+.It Fl V, -version
+Display the program version number.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.\" ========
+.Xr petitboot 8 , Xr pb-discover 8 , Xr pb-event 8
diff --git a/man/pb-discover.8 b/man/pb-discover.8
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+.\" Copyright (C) 2009 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2009 Sony Corp.
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+.\"
+.\" Maintainer's Notes:
+.\" * For syntax help see the man pages for 'mdoc' and 'mdoc.samples'.
+.\" * To check syntax use this:
+.\" 'groff -C -mtty-char -Tutf8 -man pb-discover.8'.
+.\" * To check format use this: 'less pb-discover.8'.
+.\"
+.Dd ""
+.Dt pb-discover 8
+.Os
+.\"
+.Sh NAME
+.\" ====
+.Nm pb-discover
+.Nd The dynamic device discovery daemon of the Petitboot bootloader
+.\"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.\" ========
+.Nm
+.\"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.\" ===========
+pb-discover maintains a dynamic list of boot options available to
+the system. On startup, the petitboot user interface clients connect to
+pb-discover daemon and receive boot option information.
+.\"
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.\" ========
+.Xr petitboot 8 , Xr pb-cui 8 , Xr pb-event 8
diff --git a/man/pb-event.8 b/man/pb-event.8
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+.\" Copyright (C) 2009 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2009 Sony Corp.
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+.\"
+.\" Maintainer's Notes:
+.\" * For syntax help see the man pages for 'mdoc' and 'mdoc.samples'.
+.\" * To check syntax use this:
+.\" 'groff -C -mtty-char -Tutf8 -man pb-event.8'.
+.\" * To check format use this: 'less pb-event.8'.
+.\"
+.Dd ""
+.Dt pb-event 8
+.Os
+.\"
+.Sh NAME
+.\" ====
+.Nm pb-event
+.Nd Event helper for the Petitboot bootloader
+.\"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.\" ========
+.Nm
+.\"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.\" ===========
+The pb-event utility is used to send user mode events to pb-discover, the
+petitboot device discovery daemon.
+.\"
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.\" ========
+.Xr petitboot 8 , Xr pb-cui 8 , Xr pb-discover 8
diff --git a/man/petitboot.8 b/man/petitboot.8
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+.\" Copyright (C) 2009 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2009 Sony Corp.
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+.\"
+.\" Maintainer's Notes:
+.\" * For syntax help see the man pages for 'mdoc' and 'mdoc.samples'.
+.\" * To check syntax use this:
+.\" 'groff -C -mtty-char -Tutf8 -man petitboot.8'.
+.\" * To check format use this: 'less petitboot.8'.
+.\"
+.Dd ""
+.Dt petitboot 8
+.Os
+.\"
+.Sh NAME
+.\" ====
+.Nm petitboot
+.Nd The Petitboot bootloader
+.\"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.\" ===========
+Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on Linux kexec.
+Petitboot can load Linux kernel and initrd 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.
+.Pp
+Petitboot looks for bootloader configuration files on mountable devices
+in the system, and can also be configured to use boot information
+from a DHCP server.
+.\"
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.\" ========
+.Xr pb-cui 8 , Xr pb-discover 8 , Xr pb-event 8
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