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Date:      Fri, 02 Feb 1996 16:32:44 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) 
Message-ID:  <2817.823275164@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 21:15:20 EST." <199602020215.VAA25630@spooky.rwwa.com> 

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> > 
> > I actually thought about this some time back, and have a suggestion
> > for a ISA card:
> > 
> > 	The "FreeBSD gadget":
> 
> How about adding a 1pps input for xntpd.

You only want a 1pps if it is very good.

That is not the job for a GPS receiver.

You could add the HW to get a precise timestamp of course but that is
cheap:  A TTL buffer that triggers an irq.

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