Max Kellermann wrote:
Dave Springford wrote:
The LX 9090 Zeus features a 5.5 inch colour screen and runs a new LX
Navigation glide and nav software. It has the ability to show either
a 2D or 3D terrain moving map on screen.

I sent a few questions about the LX 9090 Zeus to LX Navigation, in an
attempt to resolve my confusion, here are the answers from Crtomir
Rojnik:

Just in case anybody else is interested in the technical details, I've
got an informative email from Ales Krajnc, who was involved in the
design of the LX 9090 Zeus.

Q: Does it run Linux or Windows?

A: no answer, question was ignored.

The LX Zeus indeed runs Linux. It is a custom Linux distribution, and
the application is based on Qt.

The firmware image from a similar product by the same company
(Kanardia Nesis, http://www.kanardia.eu/products/nesis) suggest that
the LX Zeus runs a Debian-like distribution, Linux kernel 2.6.24, Qt
4.6.2. Qt runs on top of the frame buffer.

Q: The MiniMap and the LX8000/9000 are all based on the old ARMv5
architecture. Did you choose a modern CPU architecture for the Zeus?
(i.e. ARMv7 with NEON and OpenGL)

According to Ales, the LX Zeus has an ARMv5 CPU with 750 MHz (the
firmware has XScale drivers). That leaves me unimpressed, because
this is only slightly better than the ancient hx4700 (ARMv5 620 MHz).
Contemporary mobile phones have dual-core ARMv7 CPUs with 1200 MHz or
more.

Max