On Fri, 14 May 1999, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> Hmm, I think that would be *really* cool! ROMable free Unix-like systems is
> really what I'll be needing in the coming months. My boss produces a remote
> controlled camera that currently runs over radio using hardware (or
> something - I don't know the details yet), and is looking for me to do
> system upgrades and program a new realease this summer. The camera itself
> will run a ROM OS - right now that would be ROMable DOS, but since he is a
> Unix fan like me, if I could give him the ELKS kernel on ROM, he would
> probably go for it. (Already planning to write the controller software,
> which will run off a PC and communicate over Ethernet, on Linux) Along that
> same vein, is there an existing free Unix-like OS that can run on ROM?
Can you get any more technical info about the hardware?
I think that we should be making more effort to get ELKS in some embeded
systems. LKS just doesn't seem right.
>
> ROMmizing ELKS is a project that I would certainly like to contribute
> to, but I really don't know what is being done on the problem, or where to
> start. If anyone needs something done, I'd be willing to help out. Having
> said that, I'd need some serious guidance.
What needs doing to have elks going on a machine with no bios and
the root disk on romfs?
In the summer a few of us were thinking about making a very simple system
along those lines.
Maybe a 286, some rom/ram, and a small LCD screen. Maybe.
Luke(Boo) Farrar.
