Re: apex-nslu2-1.4.14

[Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> [2007-01-30 20:08]:
>> a new application for writing the environment from user-mode.
> 
> Interesting.  Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me.  It can
> read the environment but not set it:
...
> apex-env dump only shows zeros:
> 
> foobar:~# more dump  | head -3
> 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........ ........
...
> I got this problem before I upgraded APEX in flash but also now that
> I've written 1.4.14 to flash and booted with it.

Martin,

Assuming this build of apex puts the environment in the same block as
apex itself, are the debian scripts padding that block with FFs or
zeros?  If the latter, that would explain it.

-- Rod