Status of Intel HDA powersave mode for Maverick

[Daniel Chen]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Chase Douglas
<chase.douglas at canonical.com> wrote:
> I've got a macbook 5,1 with an nVidia MCP chip. Is this one setup you
> need further testing on? I'd be happy to help you out here.

Sure, that's certainly a controller that needs further testing.

> Might I suggest we remove the policy and ask people to test on
> ubuntu-devel? We can throw the policy back in if we get bad results.
> There are some devs who seem to want the policy killed anyways, even if
> we don't enable powersave by default. They don't want popping at all,
> even just on battery power. I'm not in that group, but they wouldn't
> mind getting rid of this I think.

Despite Maverick being a bit more edge-leaning, I think it'll be best
if we coordinate landing of driver patches and pm-utils policy
[removal] so that there isn't a significant period (i.e., more than
one week) where popping is present for the untested controller+codec
combinations.

Best,
-Dan