Am I missing something or maybe I don't understand the situation , but I am under the impression that the RTC has it's own battery and crystal unrelated to the processor clock. Seems like in that case, the 24 MHz won't have any effect on the timekeeping drift.
Tom Holmes, N8ZM -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts <time-nuts-boun...@lists.febo.com> On Behalf Of Trent Piepho Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2021 6:03 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@lists.febo.com> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] x86 CPU Timekeeping and clock generation On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:42 PM Luiz Paulo Damaceno <luizpauloeletric...@gmail.com> wrote: > The 24 MHz comes from an synthesizer that is locked to an atomic clock, the > clock of NTP server (also 24 MHz, but an embedded board (Tinkerboard)) also > comes from the same Atomic clock that is feeding other synthesizer for > generates 24 MHz to this board. The RK3288 has some PWM generators. These are of course also fed from PLLs derived from the same 24 MHz input. So, why not produce a signal on the PWM that can be compared to your reference? This would tell you if the error is in the clock generation on the SoC or something in software that happens afterward. Or at least as far as the PWM clock tree overlaps the kernel timesource clock tree, which could be the CPU clock but it can be other things too. > The experiment is the following: 1- synchronize the computer's clock to NTP > server then leave it running free (no periodic synchronization), 2 - NTP will set the frequency skew too, so even if it is not doing periodic synchronization, there may still be a programmed frequency skew. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_l ists.febo.com and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.