Re: Bug#421359: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-28 Thread Marc Singer
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:39:29AM -0600, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > I like the idea of creating a separate script to flash APEX. We add > the script to the apex-nslu2 package, and run it as part of postinst > when APEX is upgraded. In this case, we shouldn't need to check if > APEX is present in

Re: Bug#421359: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-27 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On 6/26/07, Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P.S. It is interesting (to me) to see how you use the *= notation to eliminate default variable contents. :-) I did that only to make it easier for me to parse the output of apex-env. I couldn't figure out how to write a neat awk and cut exp

Re: Bug#421359: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-27 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Marc Thanks very much for your comments on the patch. I'll incorporate them into a revised version. On 6/27/07, Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had another thought about this. It may be worthwhile to make sure to install APEX only if it is already present in the Loader partition a

Re: Bug#421359: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-27 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:07:49PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:07:16PM -0600, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > > Hi Marc > > > > On 6/26/07, Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >I recall that there was a thread of discussion about automatically > > >upgrading APEX

Re: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-26 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:07:16PM -0600, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > Hi Marc > > On 6/26/07, Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I recall that there was a thread of discussion about automatically > >upgrading APEX when a new package is installed. Was this resolved? > >In order for me to

Re: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-26 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Marc On 6/26/07, Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recall that there was a thread of discussion about automatically upgrading APEX when a new package is installed. Was this resolved? In order for me to install a new APEX, I had to take the /boot/apex.flash image, byte swap it, and th

Re: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-26 Thread Rob Lockhart
On 6/26/07, Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:13:15AM +0930, Rod Whitby wrote: > Marc Singer wrote: > > I'm curious if we want to allow APEX to automatically detect more > > memory on startup. The code in APEX that reconfigures the memory > > controller and then

Re: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-26 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:13:15AM +0930, Rod Whitby wrote: > Marc Singer wrote: > > I'm curious if we want to allow APEX to automatically detect more > > memory on startup. The code in APEX that reconfigures the memory > > controller and then scans memory to determine the amount of memory > > ins

Re: nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-25 Thread Rod Whitby
Marc Singer wrote: > I'm curious if we want to allow APEX to automatically detect more > memory on startup. The code in APEX that reconfigures the memory > controller and then scans memory to determine the amount of memory > installed on the slug appears to be working properly in 64MiB and > 128Mi

nslu2 startup with automatic fat-slug detection

2007-06-25 Thread Marc Singer
I'm curious if we want to allow APEX to automatically detect more memory on startup. The code in APEX that reconfigures the memory controller and then scans memory to determine the amount of memory installed on the slug appears to be working properly in 64MiB and 128MiB slugs. I'm working through