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kusmi · 11-02-2006, 01:21 PM

Being part of the beta-tester group, I'm also not so sure, if this beta-test group would be a big help on solving power-management issues: Usually developers want some steps to reproduce the fault. But with such low-level stuff like power-managment, we could just report: "Oh, my screen does not work", but could not give any more hints (e.g. steps to reproduce would be always: I put iLiad to suspend...), as we don't have access to internals (e.g. no debugger, no logfiles, etc).

So I agree, we could do some long-term stability testing (e.g. it could be that only every 10th suspend goes ballistic or if you suspend for a long period of time) but I guess iRex does not need us beta-testers for the first implementation round, as it would be relatively trivial to test, if suspend works or not: By just putting iLiad to suspend after they did some code changes :-)

I could also imaging, that this stuff is quite hard to develop, as you would need to test it on real hardware (no simulator), but could be wrong, as I don't develop such low-level stuff :-)

11-02-2006, 01:21 PM	#44
kusmi Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 16 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Zurich, Switzerland	Being part of the beta-tester group, I'm also not so sure, if this beta-test group would be a big help on solving power-management issues: Usually developers want some steps to reproduce the fault. But with such low-level stuff like power-managment, we could just report: "Oh, my screen does not work", but could not give any more hints (e.g. steps to reproduce would be always: I put iLiad to suspend...), as we don't have access to internals (e.g. no debugger, no logfiles, etc). So I agree, we could do some long-term stability testing (e.g. it could be that only every 10th suspend goes ballistic or if you suspend for a long period of time) but I guess iRex does not need us beta-testers for the first implementation round, as it would be relatively trivial to test, if suspend works or not: By just putting iLiad to suspend after they did some code changes :-) I could also imaging, that this stuff is quite hard to develop, as you would need to test it on real hardware (no simulator), but could be wrong, as I don't develop such low-level stuff :-)