Maarten Wiltink wrote: > "Karl Denninger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] >> The obvious question is "can a time source that outputs only with 1 >> second resolution and only when polled generate >> sufficiently-high-quality reference time for the system to use it?" > > Perhaps not on its own, but I can imagine a scheme where you look > for its top-of-second point, by polling at random intervals or > intervals of slightly more or less than one second. > > If its internal clock is good enough, then given time it could be > made acceptable. It's not unlike TSC interpolation. > > Groetjes, > Maarten Wiltink > >
That's kinda what I'm thinking. If Multitech can't get me something better than what I have I may try to synthesize it with a daemon that attempts to "find" the change and then stuffs NTPD via a named pipe or something similar. -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.denninger.net _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
