On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:13:45AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andreas B. wrote:
> >
> > If the clocks are syncronized very well (this is the point I need
> > IEEE1588 for) I
> 
> Even with IEEE1588 you will not reach arbitrarily high  precision  if
> you  have  to  do  the  timestamping  of  the received PTP packets in
> software only. I'm not aware of many ethernet  controllers  that  are
> capable  of  detecting  and  timestamping  PTP  packets in hardware -
> actually the only one I know of is the one in the PPC405EZ.

The netX has hardware timestamping registers as well.

Robert
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