legacy stack or libbsd

[Gabriel.Moyano at dlr.de]

>On 5/8/20 2:13 pm, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 6:41 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>>> On 5/8/20 10:23 am, Chris Johns wrote:
>>>> On 5/8/20 2:04 am, Heinz Junkes wrote:
>>>>> Because the libbsd stack does not support some things yet (e.g. ntp)
>
>>>> I have PTP running on libbsd. I currently have no time (ha) to clean up the work
>> Is it precisely no time? ;)
>
>About +/- 0, I am not sure which! 
>
>>>> and create a patch. It requires some extra support in the score.
>
>> Is the hacked approach available, or you will get around to it eventually?
>
>I will get back around to it. There are 2 sets of changes. In PTP itself a
>change is to add kqueue support because select in libbsd does not support
>signals. The PTP code runs a number of timers and they run of an alarm signal.
>The other piece of support is to the score to bring in the FreeBSD kern_ntp
>support to sit besides the timercounters.
>
>There will be some unresolved issues like RTC driver support. I have this
>commented out as I do not need it.
>
>I would like to upstream the code however adding kqueue will trip that interface
>on FreeBSD and may be others so I am not sure how much work that will create.

Hi Chris,

We are also interested on getting running PTP on RTEMS. We can get this done in a joint effort.
Please let me know how we can help.

Best regards,
Gabriel


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