X-Git-Url: https://git.ao2.it/kboot-utils.git/blobdiff_plain/834d0b554af2b6f6897e5e6d1b1c4a7bfe244cfc..3b1e857dd4cc77d60a6c235944241ceda02f2a75:/debian/control diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index a0a9ec3..385a53a 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -11,10 +11,15 @@ Vcs-Browser: http://git.ao2.it/kboot-utils.git Package: kboot-utils Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} -Description: Helper tools to generate a kboot.conf file - Helper tools to automatically generate a kboot.conf file from entries in - /boot. +Description: helper tools to generate a kboot.conf file + kboot-utils provides helper tools to automatically generate a kboot.conf file + from entries in /boot. . - The kboot.conf file can be read by the petitboot bootloader which is used - for instance on the Sony PlayStation 3 in OtherOS mode in order to list - kernels to boot. + kboot.conf is used for instance by the petitboot bootloader, which is used on + the Sony PlayStation 3 in OtherOS mode; petitboot reads the file from the root + filesystem in order to list kernels to boot. + . + A description of the kboot.conf file format can be found at: + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-linux-docs/ps3-linux-docs-latest/mini-boot-conf.txt + mirrored at: + http://ring.nict.go.jp/pub/linux/kernel.org/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-linux-docs/ps3-linux-docs-latest/mini-boot-conf.txt