Bug#629404: ITP: qi -- lightweight bootloader for OpenMoko Freerunner

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>

* Package name    : qi
  Version         : 20100107
  Upstream Author : OpenMoko inc.
* URL             : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: C, assembler
  Description     : lightweight bootloader for OpenMoko Freerunner
  Tags            : admin::boot, hardware::embedded, implemented-in::c

Qi (named by Alan Cox on Openmoko kernel list) is a minimal
bootloader that "breathes life" into Linux.  Its goal is to stay
close to the minimum needed to "load" and then "boot" Linux -- no
boot menus, additional peripheral init or private states.


Preliminary packaging is already available at

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-fso/qi.git

and some discussion starting at

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2011-June/004052.html