John, Without sounding like I am trying to argue too much, there are cases in electronics where you could easily overwhelm a 1Ghz processor.
Imagine one very "simple" use case. A computer controlled switch mode power supply where power switching could happen from 400Khz to 2Mhz changeable on the fly based on readings taken from 1 or more ADCs reading 2msps. I seriously doubt a BBB could handle this alone. Now add in networking, web UI, security, and countless other aspects to the device and . . . yeah it would never happen without external devices. After quickly the Wikipedia page for Netlink, I do however find it very interesting, and in fact is IPC between user / kernel mode processes. Among other things. On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:36 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, this is what I was thinking was the case, but at the same time I was > hoping it was for 3.12.x . . . > > Did i read your original post correctly in that you plan on documenting > this fully ( eventually ) ? > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Charles Steinkuehler < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/27/2014 9:30 PM, William Hermans wrote: >> > Hi Charles, >> > >> > Sorry if this is an incredibly dense question. But which kernel version >> is >> > this for? >> >> It's for the 3.8 kernel, unless someone's gotten device tree overlays >> working with the 3.12 kernels while I wasn't looking. :) >> >> It should work with any 3.8 kernel (regular or Xenomai), but if you >> don't have the patch to gpio-of-helper to allow exporting GPIO pins with >> changeable direction they'll all be stuck as inputs. >> >> -- >> Charles Steinkuehler >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
