On 2007-09-25, Hal Murray wrote:

>>The SHM driver is only useful if you have a helper program running
>>outside ntpd which writes to the SHared Memory segment.
>
> Does anything other than gpsd write info to the SHM segment?

gpsd is probably not the only SHM helper program out there.

>>The (atomized) NMEA driver is the correct one to use with the GPS-18LVC.
>
> I've lost track of PPS support in Linux.  The NMEA driver uses
> the PPS signal if the kernal supports grabbing the timestamp.
>
> I think gpsd does it without special kernel support.  (I haven't
> tried it.)  If so, it's probably better than the NEMA driver
> without kernel support.

There's nothing in the OP's intial article mentioning gpsd, so I had no
idea he's using it.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

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