Re: FreeBSD-recent + nanobsd for 4801?

Christopher Hilton <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:15:20 -0400

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On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Michael Stone <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
>> The net4801 is supposed to be perfect as an inexpensive gps driven
>> clock for ntpd. But I thought that having CPU_ELAN and CPU_ELAN_PPS in
>> the kernel added precision to the timekeeping?
> 
> That's the net4501, not the net4801. FWIW, without replacing the clock and using a custom ntpd the 4501 is ok as an NTP server but not spectacular. The limited memory and cpu hurt if you run a current OS & ntpd. Remember, nobody's actively targeted that hardware in a decade. The net4801 will probably do as well in the real world even without the elan timer registers.

I assumed that a gps with PPS output was required.

— Chris

Chris

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