> Good to know, thanks. > > I am trying to bring power down, and have been measuring the current > going into the BBB through the 5V socket with no USB cable connected. > > In my first measurement kernel idle was 300 mA. Then I installed > cpufreputils and that brought the current down to 230 mA because - > unexpectedly - just installing the Debian package changed the CPU mode > to "on-demand". Today I managed to bring the current down a further 20 > mA (to about 210 mA) by disabling HDMI in boot/uEnv.txt.
We enable 'performance' by default... The thought, boot as fast as we can, by the time the rootfs loads (and cpufrequtils) we've gotten mostly up, so safe to switch to on-demand.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
