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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:44:16 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Iain Young <iain@g7iii.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SD card -image- for the beaglebone
Message-ID:  <1359668656.93359.339.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <510AE1D6.8010203@g7iii.net>
References:  <510A4F5B.7000407@g7iii.net> <1359646574.93359.327.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <510AE1D6.8010203@g7iii.net>

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On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 21:27 +0000, Iain Young wrote:
> On 31/01/13 15:36, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> > So you're interested in a PPS driver for BeagleBone?  That would be fun
> > to play with, I wonder what the BB's timer hardware looks like?  It'd be
> > easy enough to do with a gpio interrupt I suspect, but the timing geek
> > in me can't resist going for the nanosecond-accurate measurements when
> > possible, even if it is kind of pointless for millisecond-accurate NTP.
> 
> Yep. Planning on hooking up MSF, DCF, and TDF clocks to GPIO pins, as
> well as some GPS units. Originally planned for doing this with some
> Pi, but found the bone had serial ports and things developed from there
> 
> Planning on abusing UART3's CTS pin for initial basic testing, as
> radioclkd and radioclkd2 have only support for serial ports, but
> then it will be working out what if anything I need to patch into the
> kernel to get the PPS subsystem to listen to particular GPIO pins.
> 
> Also planning to test PHK's ntpns, which has DCF support,
> and should be easy to modify for MSF. Anyway, this is heading far
> too quickly to being on-topic for time-nuts but off-topic here

You might be surprised how many time nuts read this list, several of us
do it for a living.

-- Ian





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