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b_k · 03-11-2007, 01:12 PM

I'm thinking the same. Still wondering why they don't change the hardware. Even if the hardware design must have eaten some dollars, they should spent the money on making suspend possible. But then there could come other problems, like that the firmware image for the 2 hardware generations would no longer be 100% compatible and such.

And one recent article about the LinuxBIOS project made me think. Basically one developer managed to pack a 2.6 kernel and K-Drive into a 2 MB chip, giving you a linux system with GUI in 8 seconds! However, iRex still has probably a lot of additions in the iLiad to load ...
But we wouldn't have the boot-up problem in the first place, if the hardware could do suspend. You would only have to occassionally do a reboot if you managed to get everything out the battery (and this could be limited by software, so the iLiad would have enough power to support the RAM for a given time, so the need to reboot it would occur even less often.)

03-11-2007, 01:12 PM	#79
b_k Übernerd Posts: 238 Karma: 74 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Germany Device: iRex iLiad	I'm thinking the same. Still wondering why they don't change the hardware. Even if the hardware design must have eaten some dollars, they should spent the money on making suspend possible. But then there could come other problems, like that the firmware image for the 2 hardware generations would no longer be 100% compatible and such. And one recent article about the LinuxBIOS project made me think. Basically one developer managed to pack a 2.6 kernel and K-Drive into a 2 MB chip, giving you a linux system with GUI in 8 seconds! However, iRex still has probably a lot of additions in the iLiad to load ... But we wouldn't have the boot-up problem in the first place, if the hardware could do suspend. You would only have to occassionally do a reboot if you managed to get everything out the battery (and this could be limited by software, so the iLiad would have enough power to support the RAM for a given time, so the need to reboot it would occur even less often.)