Re: [Linuxptp-devel] POSIX Timers for External Hardware

2018-03-23 Thread Alex Fontaine
The latency from software responding to the timer and then firing an event on a gpio would be eliminated. No, the latency increases when using PHC. That is the whole point. In the scenario I am describing, a hardware event is fired immediately when the PHC timer expires in hardware.  That ha

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] POSIX Timers for External Hardware

2018-03-23 Thread Richard Cochran
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:03:50AM -0500, Alex Fontaine wrote: > The kernel documentation states the ability to use POSIX timers with the PTP > hardware clocks. This does not appear to be implemented in the ptp > subsystem drivers. What is preventing this timer interface from being > implemented?

[Linuxptp-devel] POSIX Timers for External Hardware

2018-03-23 Thread Alex Fontaine
The kernel documentation states the ability to use POSIX timers with the PTP hardware clocks. This does not appear to be implemented in the ptp subsystem drivers. What is preventing this timer interface from being implemented? Previous discussions[1] indicate the PHC timer functionality was