Re: apex-1.4.0 and debian-nslu2-arm
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:09:27PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> [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
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