Hi Martin On 9/28/07, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the status of this patch? I think that we should ditch the patch, and include the attached script (flash-apex) in the apex-nslu2 package. The script flashes the file /boot/apex.flash to the FIS partition named "Loader". The script would therefore be called when installing apex-nslu2, or when apex is upgraded manually. The script (like the patch) still pads the MTD block with 0xffs. Marc had suggested that it didn't need to overwrite the APEX configuration area. However, the etch installer padded the MTD block with zeros instead of 0xffs which meant that one could not use apex-env to change the configuration area. This script will therefore correct this problem on previous installations and maintain any custom APEX environment settings (e.g. if the user had changed the envrioment settings with Phil Endecott's apexctl). The script has been tested on the NSLU2. It should probably also include support for the NAS100D (assuming the NAS100D uses APEX with Debian - I have CC'd Rod on this email to solicit comments from him). Are we planning to have a apex-nas100d package? The script uses functions that have been taken from the flash-kernel script. We could put these functions in a separate file and include that file in both flash-kernel and flash-apex. I'm not sure in which package the file containing the common functions would exist. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson GnuPG Key ID: 32D6D676
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