“Especially considering the recent press releases heralding
ADS’s new sleep mode for StrongARM platforms, one would expect to
see some hands on demonstrations of this eagerly awaited advance in
open embedded systems. … Sarah Pick, the director of
marketing communications for ADS, clues us in. “Our booth is
lost,” says Pick. “All our demos and set ups are on a
loading dock somewhere.” …Pick… assured us that they did
indeed have the power management features ready for demo at the
show. ADS also says that it will release the sleep mode code as
Open Source.”
“That’s good, but some developers and users at handhelds.org’s
IRC channel on the openprojects network have issues. First, they
don’t necessarily believe that it was a simple case of misdelivery
that has ADS’s booth demo-less. There is some speculation that,
although ADS has got the sleep mode working, the company doesn’t
quite have the wakeup part operating smoothly — a detail that
certainly would prevent full release.”
“Another thing that bothers the developers is ADS’s refusal to
open up development of the power management features to the
community. Pick says that the plan is to release the fully
developed code as Open Source. But sources at handhelds.org say
they would have preferred to have been included from the
beginning.”