Subject: Re: xntpd with pps
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Tom Javen <tomja@InnoTrac.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/1999 21:18:00
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> N
> In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.991028135236.5995A-100000@data.innotrac.fi>Tom Javen 
> writes
> >
> >Anyone got PPS working on i386 ?
> >
> >I have a PPS output wired to DCD input but nothing happens in
> >xntpd (ATOM driver).
> >
> >My kernel is configured with PPS_SYNC and NTP.
> >
> >Anything else needed ?
> 
> xntpd uses the TIOCDCDTIMESTAMP ioctl, which was never really standard
> You need to get ntp v4 -- ntp-4.0.98b.tar.gz -- configure it, build
> it, and install it. Only we're still wrangling over updating the
> PPS-AI to the -05 draft, and how to import ntp v4.
> 
> If you can build a -current kernel, I can send you a newer timepps.h
> which meets the -05 spec, and matching patches for com.c.  In fact,
> I'd be glad to have a tester :).
I'll be a happy tester.


Tom
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