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A slight inaccuracy: the flight strings are not x86, but ARM, running on a custom board.

Also, only the actual graphical display application uses Chromium/JS. The rest of the system is all C++. The display code has 100% test coverage, down to validation of graphical output (for example if you have a progress bar and you set it to X% the tests verify that it is actually drawn correctly).




How stateless and independent is each display?


Can't say exactly re statelessness, but I would not be surprised if you could power-cycle all displays if needed in the middle of a mission.

As far as independent, completely independent from each other.


> but I would not be surprised if you could power-cycle all displays if needed in the middle of a mission.

Indeed you can, judging by the instruction to power off and clean all displays (then power them back on) prior to ISS rendezvous/docking in the live stream.


How is that done? By pixelwise comparison with a test image?


I'm curious about this as well. From what I remember chromium does what you suggest to verify what is rendered down to the pixel: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/02/chromium-c...




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