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

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:23:43PM +0000, Chris Sawer wrote:
 
> The people from Simtec did indeed demonstrate ArmLinux running on a
> Bush IBX-100 STB, but only in text mode with a very few basic programs
> present.
> 
> As far as I understood it, to get Linux going on the Bush STB they had
> made their own ROMs (which they'd blown onto flash ROM and installed
> in place of RISC OS) which contained a very basic Linux kernel and
> filesystem. I'm no expert in Linux, so I may have misunderstood or
> misremembered exactly how they'd done it. They'd definitely made their
> own ROMs rather than using a zip drive, though.
> 
> If you want to know the details, the best thing to do would be to get
> in contact with them: http://www.simtec.co.uk/ - they may even offer
> to sell you a set of the relevant flash roms at cost (I think they
> offered to do this at the meeting)
 
I emailed them last week asking if it was possible to get hold of the
rom images or if they'd sell me a set of blown roms, but I still haven't
had a reply back. Has anyone else tried?

J.

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