Bug#242687: ITP: colo -- Cobalt Qube2/RaQ2 boot loader

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : colo
  Version         : 1.4
  Upstream Author : Peter Horton <cobalt@colonel-panic.org>
* URL             : http://www.colonel-panic.org/cobalt-mips/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : Cobalt Qube2/RaQ2 boot loader
* Architecture    : mipsel

Peter 'p2' De Schrijver and I intend to package colo, a new boot
loader written by Peter Horton for MIPS based Cobalt machines (e.g.
Qube2 and RaQ2).  The boot loader on the Cobalt firmware has several
limitations (e.g. only kernels smaller than about 600K can be loaded,
the boot partition has to be ext2 revision 0), and this new boot
loader doesn't have any of them.  The boot loader can be written to
flash, thereby overriding the old one.  However, the more popular use
will be in chain mode; that is, the old boot loader will be used to
load colo from an ext2 /boot partition, and colo will then be used to
load the kernel (from ext2 or ext3, kernels of any size).

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com