Re: APEX, NSLU2, skip stuff
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 12:49:11PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:27:16PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> [2006-08-12 09:25]:
> > > Also, you made a couple of comments about the apex package in an
> > > email that I'm unable to find. I recall that the changelog had the
> > > wrong version number and that the control file specified the wrong
> > > name of the source package. Was there anything else?
> >
> > That's what I mentioned so far.
> >
> > It would also be good to put "noirqdebug" in the cmd line passed by
> > APEX to the kernel (only in the Debian nslu2 config).
>
> OK. I'll add that.
>
> > It would be good to have a setenv.
>
> That's next. I'd like to have something that boots first so that I
> can make it do-the-right-thing(tm). My plan is for the setenv to look
> for APEX in flash so that it can get the right location for the
> environment. I wonder if we have a chicken and egg sort of problem.
> What I *think* I can do is use the image you gave me to do some
> testing. I need to be able to get a program onto the system to test.
> I suspect there is no NPE driver, so I'll have to look for a USB
> network adapter.
>
> > At the moment, APEX passed root=/dev/ram to Linux. I think this can
> > be removed but this needs to be tested first.
>
> What should the commands lines be for both the installer and the
> runtime?
I a bit confused by this. What *should* be the command line? If we
use an initrd, is the command line root= going to be used? Moreover,
if you are going to assign variables in the APEX environment, what do
you plan to set or change?
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