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Mar 27 17:18:51 <prpplague> das bee in da howse
Mar 27 17:26:18 <beewoolie-afk> prpplague: hey man
Mar 27 17:26:33 <prpplague> beewoolie-afk: how goes it?
Mar 27 17:26:52 <beewoolie-afk> I'm taking a break from kernel patch submissions to setup a slug for building armeb.
Mar 27 17:27:09 <prpplague> lovely
Mar 27 17:27:18 * prpplague is still hacking a network driver
Mar 27 17:27:26 <beewoolie-afk> BTW, did you notice the last posting of APEX?  It has a sample program for reading the APEX environment from user-land.
Mar 27 17:27:43 <prpplague> beewoolie-afk: uh no but thats great!!
Mar 27 17:27:47 <beewoolie-afk> someone asked, so I added the hook and wrote a demo.
Mar 27 17:27:53 * prpplague looks
Mar 27 17:28:17 <beewoolie-afk> It's really useful for the slug stuff since we would like to put the mac address into APEX flash.
Mar 27 17:28:23 <beewoolie-afk> er, environment
Mar 27 17:28:54 <prpplague> uh 1.3.31 ??
Mar 27 17:28:59 <prpplague> why the big bump?
Mar 27 17:29:01 <beewoolie-afk> Let me see..
Mar 27 17:29:15 <prpplague> beewoolie-afk: yea thats what i wanted to do as well
Mar 27 17:29:25 <beewoolie-afk> Oh.  typo
Mar 27 17:29:29 <prpplague> beewoolie-afk: as the enc28j60 doesn't have a place to store the mac addr
Mar 27 17:30:05 * prpplague dls the latest apex
Mar 27 17:30:05 <beewoolie-afk> Sure.  
Mar 27 17:30:27 <prpplague> beewoolie-afk: i'll be able to add the code into my driver
Mar 27 17:30:33 <beewoolie-afk> I think it's getting to the point where I'm going to have to change APEX to permit new environment strings.
Mar 27 17:30:36 <beewoolie-afk> Sure.
Mar 27 17:30:46 <beewoolie-afk> For you, you can add an environment variable as part of your driver.
Mar 27 17:31:20 <prpplague> lovely
Mar 27 17:31:26 <prpplague> apex is truelly getting very robust
Mar 27 17:32:44 <beewoolie-afk> I've been musing about a USB driver so that we can bootstrap directly to USB without using flash.
Mar 27 17:32:58 <prpplague> yea me too 
Mar 27 17:32:59 <beewoolie-afk> It would make the slug stuff better.
Mar 27 17:33:15 <prpplague> however with the dual boot stuff on the way, that kinda got pushed to the back
Mar 27 17:33:16 <beewoolie-afk> The thing that I'd like to be able to do is disk-less booting using APEX.
Mar 27 17:33:49 <beewoolie-afk> Sure.  Don't let me forget about that.
Mar 27 17:34:08 <beewoolie-afk> When I'm done with the buildd, I'll look at those additions for you.
Mar 27 17:34:45 <prpplague> beewoolie-afk: just when you get a chance, other wise i'll get to hacking myself
Mar 27 17:35:30 <beewoolie-afk> NP.  There may be some shenanigans having to do with inserting the command into the buffer.
Mar 27 17:35:52 <beewoolie-afk> I've also been thinking that I need to support $ escapes so that environment variables can be put into the environment without being interpreted.
Mar 27 17:36:08 <beewoolie-afk> copy tftp://$serverip/...
Mar 27 17:50:43 <prpplague> hmm interesting
Mar 27 17:51:10 <prpplague> i think we need to be careful not to overbloat apex with features
Mar 27 17:59:47 <beewoolie-afk> Well, it's an important one since it makes the environment actually useful.
Mar 27 18:00:10 <beewoolie-afk> Right now, if you put ip rarp ; copy tftp://$serverip into the startup string, the substitution is made immediately.
Mar 27 18:00:15 <beewoolie-afk> That's not really very useful.
Mar 27 18:02:33 <prpplague> right
Mar 27 18:02:36 <prpplague> gotcha
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Mar 27 23:56:52 <_nil> mmm.  90 dollars worth of morningstar spicy black bean burgers.  oh okay, and a few other things.
Mar 27 23:57:05 <_nil> :x
Mar 27 23:57:49 <_nil> :D
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