There are people also inside our organization pointing to this 5s holy grail. I will say here what i said internally (not that my word is any authoritative, but I'll still say it :-) ).

********.

There is certainly a point in making the device to boot faster, but look who's talking about it. Intel. Why? Because their current HW sucks in terms of power management, so you _are_ expected to switch it on and off continuously, then of course it is important to not wait forever for X to show up.

Removing modules and going for a single kernel binary? Yeah, right!
This for example would mean that we should start shipping different kernels for n800 and n810. But what is more important, we would have he problem of debugging the thing (you don't want to use in R&D something that is not shipped to production) and go back to the pain experienced till now.

In this sense Fremantle is a huge improvement since we are enforcing drivers to be modular and this allows the creation and usage of tools like the pm-tester i posted about.

If energies have to be put into making the device more efficient, they should be focused on stability, so that the user doesn't have to actually powercycle.

Since 770 we were supposed to be always on, then it became always on, always connected. I see no point in following something that we have obsoleted more than 3 years ago.