Re: [Linuxptp-devel] Hard- and or software timestamping in Linux

2015-02-17 Thread Richard Cochran
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 06:15:59PM +0100, Axel Holzinger wrote: > I came across Windows implementations where only the sequence id is used and > IMHO this is not sufficient (thinking of different domains on the same > network). Yes, your are right, that is insufficient. Think of a master that rec

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] Hard- and or software timestamping in Linux

2015-02-17 Thread Axel Holzinger
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:31: PM +0100, Richard Cochran wrote: > This is done differently in every driver, depending on the hardware. > > Some hardware provides the time stamp "in band", for example in the > frame's buffer descriptor or in the frame data. In this case, the > association is c

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] Hard- and or software timestamping in Linux

2015-02-17 Thread Richard Cochran
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:34:26AM +0100, Axel Holzinger wrote: > as you Richard were the main force doing the work for adding hardware > timestamping to the Linux kernel, could you enlight me how the association > of a timestamp residing in kernel space (I guess in the ethernet device > driver's d

[Linuxptp-devel] Hard- and or software timestamping in Linux

2015-02-17 Thread Axel Holzinger
Hello Richard et al, as you Richard were the main force doing the work for adding hardware timestamping to the Linux kernel, could you enlight me how the association of a timestamp residing in kernel space (I guess in the ethernet device driver's domain) and a PTP message is handled by the kernel?