Petitboot

petitboot is a Linux user-space application written in C that calls kexec. The kexec installed in the initramfs is not the mainline kexec-tools implementation, but a smaller implementation named kexec-lite. It is claimed to be roughly 32 KB compared to kexec-tools, which is roughly 200 KB.1


  1. https://github.com/antonblanchard/kexec-lite/issues/4#issuecomment-314936778