Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:40:22 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: Bluetooth GPS for timekeeping? Message-ID: <17145.1702.241994.49649@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <42F902C8.9050104@savvis.net> References: <17144.64281.705769.294109@canoe.dclg.ca> <1123613910.9836.15.camel@realtime.exit.com> <42F902C8.9050104@savvis.net>
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>>>>> "Maksim" == Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> writes: >> The latter is the way it already works. Just configure other peers >> in your ntp.conf along with your GPS, viz: Maksim> you can teach ntp to talk to bluetooth gps. all you need to do Maksim> is to write a new clock driver. or you could write a simple Maksim> proxy that would get the data from bluetooth gps and make it Maksim> available at pty(4) or nmdm(4). then you could use standard Maksim> serial nmea gps ntp driver (assuming that bluetooth gps uses Maksim> nmea messages). Well... I believe the bluetooth stack (or the tools available) already provide a bluetooth to pty serial emulation. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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