[Cbe-oss-dev] petitboot testing release

[Geoff Levand]

Hi,

I uploaded another 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.

I uploaded two file formats:

 *.elf - 2st stage kernel to load with existing bootloader.
 *.bld - 1st stage kernel to program into flash memory.

Unzip the elf file before using.

Download latest from:

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

Working parts, need testing:

  o CUI client
  o kboot, yaboot parsers
  o local load (ext4, ext3, ext2, vfat)
  o usb mass storage hotplug
  o network load: TFTP, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS
  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.

-Geoff