[ntp:hackers] Intel's Galileo as NTP server?

todd tglassey at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 5 17:08:52 UTC 2013


On 10/05/2013 12:10 AM, David J Taylor wrote:

David - after playing with the Pi and the AdaFruit Ultimate GPS breakout 
I am convinced that either plopping an i-Lotus version of the OnCore 
board or the Ublox LEA-6T module are the two best answers here.

Have you seen the Fujitsu FM4 ARM boards or any of the EU-Built (there 
are half a dozen really great PC104 or other SBC type systems which make 
wickedly cool time servers for small use apps)???

We went through these when we were doing embedded Logging Servers on a 
Board a couple of years ago.

Todd


> I get a feeling that this board, coupled with a $30 (?) SURE gps can be
> used for a pretty good low-power NTP server.
>
> http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Launches-Galileo-Arduino-Compatible-Board-With-New-Quark-X1000-SoC/ 
>
>
> The Galileo board has both USB and RS232 ports, along with a 100 Mbit/s
> Ethernet interface, which seems like a pretty good fit for an x86-based
> FreeBSD S1 server?
>
> Terje
> =================================
>
> Terje,
>
> It could be, although the Raspberry Pi makes for a more compact and 
> lower-powered solution.  You could use it with the Adafruit GPS (which 
> is based on a similar chip to that in the Sure).
>
>  http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html
>
> I don't find Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton's comments on the Intel 
> boards very encouraging, either!
>
> Cheers,
> David


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