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If DRAM clockspeed influences your application or not I don't know -- maybe you don't know too since you never tested it? In case it has a benchmark mode, adjust DRAM clockspeed and re-test 

 

That's a good point.  I suspected it did, but wasn't sure.  I tested it as you suggested and indeed it does-- the engine does have a benchmark mode.

 

The h3consumption utility seems to work well.  I disabled hdmi, usb, and reduced cores to 2, all without issue.  I can't measure actual consumption though.  The only indicator is I can look at the trends in armbianmonitor to see if there's improvement.

 

Also, I got an error when trying to lower DRAM settings.  It seemed to work, as evidenced by the speed reduction on the benchmark test, however there was no /etc/armbian-release, spitting out an error.  It seems I'm still running 5.11.  heh.  I'm not anxious to update, but the next release I will make myself do it, since I suspect the one I'm running has that awful allwinner root exploit.  Actually... I guess waiting doesn't really matter since after 5.15? apt-get upgrade is all one needs to do.  My issue is using a fresh image, but no way around that.  It's just I have it working nicely already.

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Hello,

Sorry if my question is inopportune - would be possible to change all that appropriate parameters on-line, when system is working?

I mean my Orange Pi is working on very low gears, waiting for a signal (from smartphone via WiFi or BT). When the signal comes, Orange Pi switch gear up and performs important tasks (that need more power). Then a signal again and lower gear :-)

Could be very good way to make boards smarter :-)

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To be honest that's what the CPU governors do, for CPU speeds at least. It's possible to take this approach further and have specialised cores just for idling (I think some Allwinner chips use Cortex M cores for this purpose) but that's not something that the H series has. 

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Well, H series and at least A64 has OpenRISC coprocessor. BSP kernel use it for at least suspend and waking up processor again. For example, it monitors IR sensor and if right command is received, it wakes up the main ARM cores.

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It is supported on legacy. OpenRISC core is not used on mainline (yet) but there is some code on the net, which is enough to start playing with it. Of course, suspend/resume is not yet supported on mainline.

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Hi all.

Is there anyone who is running OrangePi 2 plus with mainline kernel? (mine is 4.14.18 as of now)

 

I would like to disable hdmi and other useless devices because I'm running a headless server, but my kernel supports only Device Tree overlays.

Is there any way to reduce power consumption for me?

 

Thanks

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Hello,

I am looking for something like h3consumption, like marcello7, which would work with mainline kernel (4.14.37) for my Orange Pi Zero. In fact, I would just need to switch off Ethernet and disable GPU/HDMI to have a less idle consumption.

Has anyone done it and can explain me how to do?

 

Thank you :)

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5 hours ago, jstefanop said:

Mainline...currently 4.19


Features for optimising consumption are not developed in a modern kernel which means there is no luxury of just enabling/disabling. HDMI might be possible to disable in DT, but I doubt there will be any gain in lowering consumption. Since things are not explored, its difficult to be sure. You will need to invest some time to find that out.

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