Sorry to revive an old thread, but did anything ever come of this? The project pages exist, but only minimally.
On 5/11/06, Rainer Orth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We propose the creation of an NTP project on OpenSolaris.ORG, affiliated with the Nevada and Device Driver communities. While historially SunOS 4 and Solaris have been platforms of choice for NTP timekeeping and leading-edge development, Solaris has fallen behind other platforms (notably FreeBSD) in recent years. This is due to a couple of issues: * The NTP daemon and utilities have seen much development in preparation for the upcoming NTPv4 standard. Unfortunately, Solaris still ships the ancient xntp (NTPv3) daemon. * The NTP kernel support has evolved beyond the code currently in Solaris, but those enhancements have not been picked up. * There's a multi-vendor API for reference clocks that provide a pulse-per-second signal (PPS API, RFC 2783). While Solaris has some support for PPS devices, it failed to implement the PPS API specification. * Recent serial interface chips have seriously degraded NTP performance due to extended on-chip buffering, so current systems have become considerably worse for attaching serial reference clocks. * The PPS serial support in the kernel is a private interface that was not published in the DDI, so only onboard serial ports are supported. * The TOD synchronizaton model is fundamentally broken in Solaris and has resulted in unstable system clocks and wasted thousands of dollars in support calls and needlessly replaced hardware. * The adjtime system call slews the clock in a way that can disrupt NTP time networks. This project seems to remedy those problems and again turn Solaris into a primary NTP deployment and development platform. Project leaders will be Brian Utterback and myself. Rainer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
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