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To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: ANY-ONE-ELSE? ntpd+oncore+i386 doesn't work 
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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Ian FREISLICH:
> > The oncore ntp driver worked fine in my Athlon64 machine running
> > FreeBSD-amd64.  I've tried it on a VIA-C7 and a Pentium-M based
> > board with an onboard serial port.
> 
> Can you open a bug on bugs.ntp.org with the patch please?  I'd rather have
> upstream fix it properly.  Thanks.
> 
> > The following patch from Russell J. Yount fixes (bandaids) the issue:
> 
> Just a bigger buffer then?

Well, yeah:

/dev/oncore.serial.0\0

is 21 chars

https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389 

Fixed in 4.2.5p248 and later.  Seems FreeBSD has lagged somewhat:
version="ntpd 4.2.4p5-a (1)"

Ian

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Ian Freislich