[ntp:questions] Fwd: Re: NetBSD GPS/PPS using 4.2.6p3

Dave Hart hart at ntp.org
Wed Aug 24 09:36:42 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:52, A C <agcarver+ntp at acarver.net> wrote:
> So it seems like a port contention issue though I don't understand why

It may be specific to NetBSD.  The Windows port of ntpd has special
code in refclock_open() and tty_open() to duplicate rather than
re-open multiple references to the same underlying COMx device.  Given
the POSIX platform code doesn't do anything of the kind, I assume most
POSIX systems allow multiple opens by ntpd to operate correctly.

> Any thoughts about all of this?  I certainly have a little less hair than I
> did when I started.  However, I'd still like to get GPS_NMEA working or at
> least understand why GPS_NMEA and PPS_ATOM kill each other.

I don't see code that's writing to the PPS tty in refclock_atom.c, so
I'm curious what you find about that.  You might try using the NMEA
driver's built-in PPSAPI support (flag 1 1 flag2 1) without the atom
driver.  refclock_nmea.c can either use /dev/gpsppsX for the PPSAPI,
or it can reuse the same descriptor opened on /dev/gpsX, if
/dev/gpsppsX can't be opened.  Given your experiences with atom and
NMEA both opening the GPS tty, you should ensure /dev/gpsppsX does not
exist.

Congratulations and good luck,
Dave Hart



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