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Set-Top-Linux is the valuable information place on turning various set-top-boxes into powerful Linux machines.

Support

Current support for the following set-top-boxes:

RCA RM4100	Thomson IP1000	RCA Akimbo IP1150	Akimbo AP1200

News

06/22/08 - So-dimm socket on the Thomson IP1000 is now working. The new pre-built images are available here.

06/03/08 - First initial coreboot testing of the the so-dimm socket on the Thomson IP1000. Testing with max so-dimm at 512MB + the onboard 64MB for a total of 576MB!

05/17/08 - coreboot bios for the Thomson IP1000 is now released and ready for beta testing. TV-out is the only thing still not working, it is a work in progress. Beta testers wanted and feedback is welcome. Post your feedback in the forum.

05/15/08 - Fixed rebooting issue, coreboot on the RM4100 now is able to reboot. New pre-built images are available here. Also, the discovery that the IP1000 actually has a Low Voltage Intel Pentium III processor running at 933MHz with a 512k L2 cache and 133MHz front side bus.

05/14/08 - Discovery that the IP1000 only has 64MB of onboard memory not 128MB. Which lead to the first successful boot of coreboot on the IP1000.

05/08/08 - Thanks to the discovery from clockworx you can access the bios on the AP1200 by using a USB keyboard and pressing F4 immediately after power on.

04/23/08 - It is official! The new website and domain are complete. Everyone please update your links and bookmarks, the old site will be going down in a month or so.

03/15/08 - coreboot bios for the RCA RM4100 is now released and ready for beta testing. TV-out is the only thing still not working, it is a work in progress. Beta testers wanted and feedback is welcome. Post your feedback in the forum.