On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 08:44:18AM +0000, Y.b. Lu wrote:
> Currently linuxptp supports 802.1AS end-station, but not supports time-aware 
> bridge.
> We will have switch devices supporting PHC APIs and SO_TIMESTAMPING. Could I 
> just run P2P TC config linuxptp on switch, and run gPTP config linuxptp on 
> other devices for synchronization?
> This seemed not proper, but I'm curious about whether it work from protocol 
> level.

I don't think it would work, even on the protocol level.  For one
thing, you need to enable the follow-up info TLV.  After that, you
need to accumulate the port delays and the frequency offsets.  But I
would need to review the TAB to be sure.

HTH,
Richard

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