Martin Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My apologies if I am beating a dead horse, but I've spent several hours > today searching for a definite answer to the subject line question. > > The PPS part of the ntp documentation at one point refers to the PPSkit > for Linux and at another point says "The FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris > implementations can be used with the stock kernels provided with those > systems;" about the ntp PPS driver.
Just add the date of that quote... > > I understand that a full-scale PPS "system" in the kernel (and the PPS > api) may not be needed to get ntp working with PPS (e.g. that seems to > be the case for Solaris), but at least some level of support is probably > required from the kernel (in the serial driver)? Does the stock Linux > kernel (e.g. any recent 2.6 variant) support PPS or do I have to use an > extension such as PPSkit to use a PPS signal on Linux for ntpd? No, because nobody wrote the code. > > I have a setup (server 127.127.20.0 GPS/PPS) for which on a FreeBSD > machine, ntptime shows the PPSSIGNAL status bit, but not on Linux. Just use the last PPSkit for Linux kernel 2.4. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Martin _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
