Re: Aircraft embedded systems

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.embedded, in article
<11rle04gtebsi3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Captain Dondo wrote:

>I just got off a flight on one of the new-ish Airbus 330 aircraft. It
>has in-seat video. I caught the screen as it was rebooting, and it runs
>linux - surprisingly, apparently a fairly unmodified linux framebuffer
>system (you see the penguin logo, all of the boot messages, etc.
>Unfortunately, it all went by too fast for me to follow....)

There have been a number of reports of this.

>Anyone know who makes the systems? The only one I know of, Rosen
>Aviation, seems to only make the screen mounts.... Who is the
>integrator? What mobo-screen do they use?

In-flight Entertainment systems are chosen by the individual airlines,
just like the rest of the cabin interior. You'd have to ask the airline
(or more likely, search google for clues using the keywords of
'In-flight+Entertainment Airbus+330 name_of_airline'

For _your_ entertainment

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There is a wonderful cartoon from the German computer magazine *c't* pinned
to my group's noticeboard. A passenger is sitting in an airliner using his
laptop, and on the screen appears:

Bluetooth: new device found: Airbus A310

(reported in Risks Digest 23.72 17 Feb 2005 - article dated 13 Feb 2005)
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Old guy
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