On 20 August 2013 21:16, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> You never should, for precision timekeeping, for a host of technical > hacks, all outside your control. > I brought up TSC only as a, to me, better alternative to HPET / ACPI. Of course it's not good enough for serious timekeeping, no "mostly software" clock is. > support for timing electrical signals > using the same free-running counter as used for the PTP packets. Sounds interesting. Can you elaborate? Does the card then run its own clock? > > but it's the best chip there is right now OK, different price range, but do you think it trumps the likes of SolarFlare's 10GE adapters with dedicated OCXOs, or copper-only cards with OCXOs like Oregano's, or other dedicated timing NICs? What makes it stand out so much - is it just that it supports all that's needed without being marketed as a precision timing NIC? Best regards Wojciech -- - Wojciech Owczarek _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
