Re: How to change the kernel command line for the NSLU2

To: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Gane <steve@theganes.co.uk>, debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to change the kernel command line for the NSLU2
From: Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:08:57 +0930
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Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> I don't, but Phil Endecott wrote some instruction for building Apex
> [1]. You'll have to figure out how to pad the mtdblock with 0xffs
> though (I'm not sure if the latest slugimage does this - Rod Whitby
> would probably know).

Slugimage *always* pads with 0xffs.  It's a script in debian-installer
nslu2 support which used to pad with zeros (I presume that's been fixed
by now).

Note that Apex should build out of the box for Debian/NSLU2 just like
any other normal Debian package.

-- Rod

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