King's Bush [[Was Cox's Bush..] Was the Stradlings Bush.]

[meeeee mongo]

Toby Jaffey <toby@earth.li> wrote: 

> In case anyone didn't see it, I spotted this in Alan Cox's diary thing:
> 
> Heather & Rob Stradling visited to drop off a Bush Internet TV box. It's
> an ARM box running RiscOS and now off to Russell King. Alarmingly having
> given Russell a component list he seems to think he has the Linux port
> 90% done before it even arrives.

Hello Toby!

I expect you've noticed these entries in Russell King's diary.. 

Things are looking up :) :

> Monday 10 December 2001
[...]
> Alan [Cox] now has the Bush STB - an ARM7500-based machine
> manufactured by Pace Microtechnology. This ARM processor is
> also one of the few with hardware floating point. The machine 
> itself has very little in the way of hardware (it's all integrated on 
> chip), but I'm led to believe that it's virtually a RISC PC-like 
> machine on a chip. This is good, because X server machine is a 
> RiscPC, and we also have cl7500 stuff in the kernel donated by 
> Philip Blundell when Nexus did their STB.

> Friday 14 December 2001
[...]
> Alan's [Bush STB] parcel turned up today intact. No signs of 
> being thrown about, and it even seems to work.  [...]
> Someone has mailed to say that they already have some 
> replacement ROMs which gets Linux working on the box.

> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/diary/

Now if the parallel port "pocket" ethernet drivers were ported to 
ARM/Linux the Bush STB would make a blissfully silent router..

http://www.scyld.com/network/atp.html


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