[LinuxPPS] getting the PPS source

[Ben DuPont]

clemens at dwf.com wrote:
>> On 2010-03-21 17:25, Ben DuPont wrote:
>>     
>>> Is the git repository still the best way to get the PPS source?  The 
>>> documentation states that it will download about 120 MB but it's looking 
>>> more like 550-600 MB and it's downloading very slowly (7KB/s).
>>>
>>> The hardware I have is here (Garmin 18 lvc): 
>>> https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=27594&pvID=14555
>>>       
>> The kernel.org kernel source plus perhaps a patch from
>> http://ftp.enneenne.com/pub/misc/linuxpps/patches/tests/ could do.
>>
>> Any additional patches are optional and could be tried afterwards.
>>
>>     
>
> I would also consider using the kernel sources (that's what I do) plus the
> patch
>
> http://lvk.cs.msu.su/~lasaine/timesync/patches/patch-2.6.33-pps536-ts12.tar.gz
>
> This is a merge of one of Rodolfo's most recent patches and Alexander's
> patches to do the kernel-ntp.  That's what I'm running at the moment.
>
> Hopefully, this all gets merged together and put in the kernel soon.
>
>   
I grabbed the latest RC (2.6.34-rc2) from kernel.org and it seems to be 
working.
I'll take a look at this if I run into problems.

Ben