[LinuxPPS] NMEA Refclock in ntp-dev does not work

Paul paul at lavender-fam.net
Sat Oct 17 15:54:00 CEST 2009


It is interesting to even make a comment on the NTP mailing list. The
reaction is 'but this is a linux problem - we think about much more
important things here'. The recent threads about quicker locking to the
pps source would make them choke into their beards.

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 07:01 +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> On 2009-10-16 20:01, William S. Brasher wrote:
> > 
> > The NMEA refclock, refclock_nmea.c, from ntp-dev-4.2.5p233-RC does not 
> > work for me.  NTP refuses to use it as a time source and rejects it and 
> > PPS.
> 
> That is correct.
> After three years the ntp folks succeeded in not incoroorating the
> needed patch to refclock NMEA but to do their own changes to PPSAPI.
> 
> Yes, I am baffled.
> 
> Please open a new bug and try to get the real work done within three years.
> 
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