[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/4] More aggressive PM for HD-audio

[Hui Wang]

On 03/21/2015 12:20 AM, David Henningsson wrote:
>
> On 2015-03-18 09:50, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> here is a patchset for supporting more aggressive PM for HD-audio.
>> This allows to change the power state of each widget more dynamically
>> with jack and stream states.  It's activated only when the codec
>> driver (or via sysfs or f/w patch) sets codec->power_mgmt flag.
>>
>> In theory, this should work for the recent Realtek codecs, but
>> currently I have no machine for test.
>>
>> David, could you or your team check whether this works for ALC282 or
>> such?  Just add like:
>>
>> --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c
>> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c
>> @@ -5415,6 +5415,7 @@ static int patch_alc269(struct hda_codec *codec)
>>
>>       spec = codec->spec;
>>       spec->gen.shared_mic_vref_pin = 0x18;
>> +    codec->power_mgmt = 1;
>>
>>       snd_hda_pick_fixup(codec, alc269_fixup_models,
>>                  alc269_fixup_tbl, alc269_fixups);
>>
>>
>> The patchset is for for-next branch of sound git tree, but they might
>> be applicable to 4.0-rc (or even older), too.  The current patches are
>> found in topic/hda-power branch.
>
> So I hoped to be able to look at this today, but it turns out the 
> machine I was thinking of using for testing has an ALC262 codec, which 
> hardly counts as "new".
>
> Hui, is this something you feel like taking on? Otherwise I'll try to 
> talk to someone in Taipei.
>
OK， I will look for the machine to do the test next week.

Regards,
Hui.

> Anyhow, after reading through the code, I have a question about LEDs. 
> It could be that if vref is used for controlling a LED, maybe that pin 
> needs to stay in D0 for the LED to stay lit. Is this correctly 
> handled? I couldn't find any code specific to that issue, but maybe I 
> just missed it.
>
> Also, I find the power_mgmt name easy to confuse with the existing 
> power_save parameter, perhaps power_save_pin, power_save_node or 
> power_save_widget is better?
>
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Takashi
>>
>> ===
>>
>> Takashi Iwai (4):
>>    ALSA: hda - Simplify PCM setup overrides
>>    ALSA: hda - Support advanced power state controls
>>    ALSA: hda - Use the new power control for VIA codecs
>>    ALSA: hda - Adjust power of beep widget and outputs
>>
>>   sound/pci/hda/hda_beep.c       |  29 +-
>>   sound/pci/hda/hda_beep.h       |   1 +
>>   sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c      |   4 +
>>   sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.h      |   2 +
>>   sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.c    | 480 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>   sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.h    |   5 +-
>>   sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c  |  41 ---
>>   sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c |   5 +
>>   sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c      | 662 
>> +----------------------------------------
>>   9 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 802 deletions(-)
>>
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