Re: [beagleboard] Electrical isolation of BBB's ethernet port

2013-11-07 Thread Dean Franks
Yes, it is possible to couple the ports using isolation capacitors instead of transformers. This is not unusual in blade/backplane systems. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" grou

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Does Angstrom use hard float ?

2013-10-29 Thread Dean Franks
I believe there is also an issue that using hard float makes context switches much more expensive. When hardfloat is in use, all the additional registers (possibly including wide vector registers) have to be saved and restore on every context switch regardless of whether the running applicatio