[Cbe-oss-dev] petitboot testing release

[Geoff Levand]

Hi,

I uploaded a testing build of Jeremy Kerr's new multi-ui petitboot.
This release is only for experts.  Casual users should not install.

If unsure, DO NOT install.

Download:

  ps3-petitboot-testing-09.03.13.bld or latest
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-petitboot/testing/

Working parts, need testing:

  o CUI client
   o video mode selection
   o boot option editing
  o kboot, yaboot parsers
  o local load (ext4, ext3, ext2, vfat)
  o usb mass storage hotplug
  o network load: TFTP, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, and SCP
  o telnet login

Not working parts:

  o GUI client
  o removable media notification
  o dhcp boot option parser
  o bluetooth
  o wireless networking
  o other

If you need to recover:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-howto/ps3-boot-recovery-howto.txt

Source (contributions welcome):
  
  http://git.infradead.org/ps3/openwrt-patches.git

About Petitboot:

	Petitboot is a Linux kexec based bootloader with both
	graphical and command-line user interfaces. The OpenWRT
	Petitboot package has configuration options that can be
	used to specify which Petitboot components to build, and
	can also be used to specify that Petitboot should be run
	automatically at system start-up.

	Petitboot supports loading Linux kernel and initrd images
	from any device that can be mounted by Linux.  It can
	also load images from the network using TFTP, NFS, HTTP,
	HTTPS, and SCP.  Petitboot looks for bootloader config
	files on mountable devices in the system, and also uses
	the boot configuration sent to it from a DHCP server.

	Petitboot has a client-server design which supports
	running multiple user interface clients concurrently on
	the same machine.  This feature allows one to connect
	remotely via telnet or ssh and run a command-line client
	to boot the machine even when Petitboot is already
	running on the machine.

-Geoff