On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:09:27PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-26 01:09]:
> > The .deb puts the loader in boot/apex.flash.  The file needs to be
> > swizzled before being written to flash.
> 
> swizzled?
> 
> Byte-swapped or anything else/additionally?

Precisely.  Swap isn't very precise because it describes A for B.  In
this case, we need to move all four bytes ABCD such that we have A for
D and B for C.  It could be a gang swap or maybe a double swap.
Swizzle is a general mixing of the bits which is applicable to the
application at hand.


> -- 
> Martin Michlmayr
> http://www.cyrius.com/


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