[ntp:questions] NTP & PPS, part 2 ;)

A C agcarver+ntp at acarver.net
Thu Dec 11 19:48:39 UTC 2014


On 2014-12-11 11:03, Paul wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Sander Smeenk <ssmeenk at freshdot.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> But i'm quite sure driver 22 is compiled in the binary i'm running.
> 
> 
> Almost certainly not.  Debian derived distos using upstream ntp don't have
> PPS support.  However it's fairly trivial to compile and if you use the
> reference package you'll get the latest release and it will install with
> the distro version.  The only glitch is timepps.h since they choose not to
> include it in the reference source release.  It's in the pps-tools
> repository at GitHub.

Debian wheezy's packaged ntpd does include PPS support.  I am currently
running ntpd from that stable repository and running the ATOM refclock
(22).  The pps-tools package is also available in the repository for
direct installation.



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