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As we just found out in the developer section, CPU scaling alone (without other power saving and without voltage-scaling the CPU) let's the current Iliad beat the 15 hours mark. This was done with a very simple script done by k2r.
Why has iRex not managed to implement even this "minimal" soultion after more than a year of Software development for the Iliad? Scaling is even a feature that is built into the PXA255 XScale processors, so it should be a pretty obvious thing to implement and it does give a very nice boost in battery-life (as we can now see...). Voltage scaling should help things along even more.
If you can't do suspend (and it has been obvious that the Iliad can't for a while now) then you should be grasping for straws like that like a drowning man...I just don't get the development philosophy at iRex...it should not take more than a few hours of programming to get voltage and frequency scaling up and running...at least as far as a non-programmer like me can judge...
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