Availability of XO-1.5 ATest-2 machines

[david at lang.hm]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Chris Ball wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>
>   > A good test would be just to use the units in ebook reader mode
>   > and try testing how long the batteries would last reading PDFs.
>   >
>   > No need for suspend/resume testing in this case.
>
> I still disagree, because ebook reading is the mode in which we use
> suspend the most!  We suspend whenever the viewer is not actively
> rendering something new.

I know the hardware is able to do this, but does the linux system actually 
to this yet?

excluding the USB/SD interfaces, I believe that the XO-1 hardware is able 
to sleep/wake fast enough to go to sleep between keystrokes, but there 
isn't any software build available that actually does anything like this.

I'm not aware of any sofware build that will sleep while the screen is 
still powered and displaying things.

David Lang

> I agree that we should publish representative data as soon as we can,
> but if suspend/resume isn't included, the data aren't representative.
>
> - Chris.
>