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Originally Posted by TadW
Very worrysome indeed.
The beauty of Linux is that you should be able to put to sleep almost any hardware component to save valuable battery life...
It's time iRex folks comply to GPL and release the sources to the damn thing. Then perhaps some capable Linux hackers will fix what's still broken.
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I agree 100%. They have a very narrow window of opportunity before Sony steals their thunder with the Reader, and they have many open source developers waiting to knock out software for it. All we need is access to the platform and a working toolchain (actually all we need is access to the platform and their libraries...) We don't care if it's unfinished or rough around the edges - but if we don't get it soon then they will lose their advantage and this will be disastrous for them.
Also, they need to open up the machine
completely - root access, hardware specs, full source code. If they do this, then the open source community will work magic with this wonderful piece of hardware. If they smother us with unnecessary restrictions then we'll get bored and do something else.
Your call, Irex.....