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I think iRex has been about as clear with their priorities as a quick knife thrust to the kidney's.
Their focus is B2B. It's nurses filling forms, meter readers taking meter readings, news papers attempting to morph to the digital era...
They could improve power management but it's already good enough for B2B so why spend resources on something that is "good enough"?
They do have a microcontroller to wake up the iLiad: UCB1300. It's a Philips "kitchen drawer" chip that is used for a variety of features such as the Wacom, speaker and I suspect: the buttons.
So far I haven't seen iRex embrace the fact that they have a known set of hardware. Case in point? Speeding up the boot. I was told the reason the wireless.sh stop is in the startup sequence is because loading the hotplug causes it to wake up the WLAN card.
If I had been coding this? You can bet the hotplug would have been modded to not wake up the WLAN card. Oh well...
They've taken a bunch of off the shelf open source software and slapped it together to be "good enough". It's time for collaboration to begin so people can help polish off some of the rough edges and produce a more polished product.
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