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Bug#659668: ITP: petitboot -- A kexec based bootloader



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>

* Package name    : petitboot
  Version         : 12.02.12-g944bccf
  Upstream Author : Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
* URL             : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/petitboot/petitboot.html
* License         : GPLv2
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : A kexec based bootloader

Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on the Linux kexec warm
reboot mechanism. Petitboot supports loading kernel and initrd image files from
any mountable Linux device, plus can load image files from the network using
TFTP, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, and SCP. Petitboot can boot any operating system
supported by kexec.




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