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From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: UCM/DAPM - saving power when idle?
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:39:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50925145.4070706@canonical.com> (raw)

I don't deal much with ASoC, so sorry if I'm missing something obvious 
here...

When a certain use case is activated, that would then activate some DAPM 
widgets, causing the codec to consume more power. So, we should 
essentially avoid this unless we're actually playing back/recording. 
But, why isn't there a "disable all use cases" command, or possibly an 
"idle" command? (That, essentially, e g pulseaudio should set whenever 
playback/recording stops)

Or; the option would be that the codec is actually powered down, but 
only activates itself when there is a stream; but this looks like it 
could cause problem with loopback paths (e g listening to FM radio, 
where there are no streams passing through CPU/main memory).

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic

             reply	other threads:[~2012-11-01 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-01 10:39 David Henningsson [this message]
2012-11-01 15:26 ` UCM/DAPM - saving power when idle? Liam Girdwood
2012-11-02 14:30   ` Mark Brown

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