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Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
# Petitboot - A kexec-based bootloader
# Petitboot - A kexec-based bootloader
-Petitboot is a bootloader designed to run in a Linux environment for OPAL on PowerPC/POWER machines and the Playstation 3.
+Petitboot is an operating system bootloader based on Linux kexec. It can load any operating system image that supports the Linux kexec re-boot mechanism like Linux and FreeBSD.
+Petitboot can load images from any device that can be mounted by Linux, and can also load images from the network using the HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP protocols.
+Current platform support includes PowerPC/POWER with OPAL, the Sony Playstation 3, and ARM64 with ACPI. Petitboot can be built and run on other platforms, but it will not include all available features.
-Petitboot's home is at [ozlabs.org](http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=petitboot); clone it with ` git clone git://git.ozlabs.org/petitboot `
+See the petitboot [man pages](man) for more info.
-Development and discussion occurs on the Petitboot mailing list: [petitboot@lists.ozlabs.org](https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/petitboot)
+Petitboot's home is at [ozlabs.org](http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=petitboot); clone it with `git clone git://git.ozlabs.org/petitboot`.
-For an example of building Petitboot for distribution in a Linux image, see [op-build](https://github.com/open-power/op-build/tree/master/openpower/package/petitboot)
+Development and discussion occurs on the Petitboot mailing list: [petitboot@lists.ozlabs.org](https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/petitboot).
+
+## Building
+
+For an example of building Petitboot for distribution in a Linux image, see [op-build](https://github.com/open-power/op-build/tree/master/openpower/package/petitboot) or [petitboot--buildroot](https://github.com/glevand/petitboot--buildroot).
To build locally for development/debug (with the ncurses UI for example):
```
./bootstrap
To build locally for development/debug (with the ncurses UI for example):
```
./bootstrap
-./configure --with-twin-x11=no --with-twin-fbdev=no
-```
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+
+./discover/pb-discover --help
+./ui/ncurses/petitboot-nc --help
+```