On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 18:14 -0800, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:55:29AM -0800, Dalon Westergreen wrote:
> > Sure, I would like to keep the debugfs entries for disabling freq
> > correction,and
> > reading the current scaled_ppm value.  I intend to use these to tune
> > anexternal
> > vcxo.  If there is a better way to do this, please let me know.
> 
> Yes, there is.  The external VCXO should be a proper PHC.  Then, with
> a minor change to the linuxptp stack (already in the pipe), you can
> just use that.
> 
> You should not disable frequency correction in the driver.  Leave that
> decision to the user space PTP stack.

Good to know, thanks.

> 
> > I would prefer to keep altera just to be consistent with the altera_tse
> > stuff,
> > and i intend to reusethis code for a 10GbE driver, so perhaps altera_tod to
> > reference the fpga ip name?
> 
> So the IP core is called "tod"?  Really?

yes, i am afraid so. "Time of Day"

--dalon

> 
> Thanks,
> Richard

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