[ANNOUNCE] petitboot v0.0.1

[ANNOUNCE] petitboot v0.0.1

[Jeremy Kerr]

Hi all,

Benjamin Herrenschmidt and I are proud to announce the first release of 
petitboot - a graphical bootloader for the PS3, based on twin and 
kboot.

Details (including screenshots) are available at the petitboot homepage:

  http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/

Petitboot is still in early development, but we'd be interested in any 
feedback from this beta. There's a TODO list in the tarball if you're 
interested in helping out.

Feel free to contact Benjamin and/or myself with comments, bugs, or (our 
favourite:) patches.

Cheers,


Jeremy

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [ANNOUNCE] petitboot v0.0.1

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 23:42 +1000, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt and I are proud to announce the first release of 
> petitboot - a graphical bootloader for the PS3, based on twin and 
> kboot.

Fedora packages at http://david.woodhou.se/petitboot/

When I get home next week I'll work on a separate tool which can make a
zImage.ps3.rom given a kernel binary and an initrd -- much like the
existing 'mkzimage' script which does it for OF machines. Then we can
build the otheros.img without having to rebuild the kernel just to get a
zImage out of it.

Hopefully we'll have kexec working in 2.6.21 by then :)

-- 
dwmw2

[ANNOUNCE] petitboot git tree

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 23:42 +1000, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt and I are proud to announce the first release of 
> petitboot - a graphical bootloader for the PS3, based on twin and 
> kboot.

.../...

Due to a bug in the make dist scripts, the TODO and COPYING files are
missing from the archive (oops ... it's really all GPL).

Until we make a fixed release, you can get the full thing via git at

	git://git.infradead.org/petitboot.git

Or take a peek with

	http://git.infradead.org/?p=petitboot.git;a=summary

Cheers,
Ben.