NTP client recommendation for RTEMS?

[Sebastian Huber]

On 18/02/2022 14:43, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 7:22 AM Sebastian Huber 
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de 
> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I would like to add an NTP client support for RTEMS. The ntp_adjtime()
>     implementation is already available as a patch. For testing purposes I
>     ported the NTP daemon from FreeBSD to libbsd. This basically works
>     fine.
>     I am not sure about the maintenance status of this code
>     (https://www.ntp.org/ <https://www.ntp.org/>). There is also
> 
>     https://www.ntpsec.org/ <https://www.ntpsec.org/>
> 
>     This project has a public Git repository and seems to be more active.
>     However, there is no standard package for openSUSE Leap 15.3. Maybe
>     this
>     is because most Linux users use now timesyncd from systemd. Any
>     recommendations?
> 
> 
> I'd stick with ntp.org <http://ntp.org> without much thought. With that 
> being what FreeBSD uses, it is icing on the cake.

The code looks not that good. There seems to be a lot of cleanup done in 
ntpsec.org.

> 
> Did you eliminate use of signals like Chris had to do with ptpd?

Not yet, they use both select(), but this should be changed to use 
kqueue(). I hacked away the use of signal.

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