On 2012-02-03, David J Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> The generic BSD kernel does not enable PPS support by default. You must >> recompile to enable PPS. >> >> >> The page you quoted says the following in the section "System software >> customization" (about 45% down the page in the Software section): >> >> System software customisation >> >> Need to add one line to the Kernel configuration: >> >> options PPS_SYNC >> >> and recompile the Kernel. On my 133MHz/48MB system this can take >> several hours. Note the configuration suggestions below before you >> recompile the kernel. > > But that was FreeBSD 5.4 and some six years ago. Note that I did not make > the same remark about FreeBSD 8 - so whether that does or does not need > recompiling is something I don't currently know. > The need to make a custom kernel that includes option PPS_SYNC is still true on the recently released FreeBSD 9.0.
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