Yo Eric! On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:26:50 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Gary E. Miller <g...@rellim.com>:
> > On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 23:10:45 -0400
> > "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> >
> > > And, asnyway, I don't think you're describing a requirement for
> > > NTP to *take in* IRIG as a primary clock source, either. Why do
> > > that? If the IRIG sync box has any kind of digital output, even
> > > something as simple as a one-wire 1PPS export, you run any NTP
> > > you want to be downstream of the master sync clock from that
> > > rather than the IRIG.
> >
> > I don't know why, or if their are better ways, I'm just saying
> > people do. Anyone in broadcast or film media has IRIG servers they
> > use, and they want time from them. Far more commonly than I
> > imagined until recently. Several commercial NTP products do it, we
> > wantt them to convert from NP Classic to NTPsec.
>
> Yes. But there's still the issue that the IRIG driver I removed was
> designed to handle analog input via an obsolete class of sound card.
Yeah, a driver that does that should be shot. Just don't count out
IRIG as a source.
> 500us
> resolution wouldn't be good enough for what they want.
Certainly good enough for 120 frames per second.
RGDS
GARY
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