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+MINI -- Mini Is Not IOS
+Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Team Twiizers
+
+mini is our bare-bones replacement for IOS.  It does not have all of
+the features that IOS provides -- notably, we have not implemented
+USB, networking, write support to the NAND filesystem, DI support or
+WC24 support.  However, all hardware is directly accessable via IPC --
+see mini_ipc.c/h for details.
+
+Please feel free to add write code to fill in gaps in the
+functionality.  As it stands, it's useful for low-level system
+recovery tasks, and as a shim/proxy to allow code on the PPC
+(e.g. Linux) to have full access to the Wii's hardware.