Re: Bug#659668: ITP: petitboot -- A kexec based bootloader
Geoff Levand, le Sun 12 Feb 2012 22:41:04 +0000, a écrit :
> * 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.
This is potentially very interesting for debian-accessibility, since
along with brltty that could make an accessible bootloader.
Samuel
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