Yo Eric! On Thu, 5 May 2016 18:30:25 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Gary E. Miller <g...@rellim.com>:
> > Or, maybe looking at in the inverse manner, have a gpsd that can be
> > stripped down to the bare minimum for ntpd use.
>
> We can already do that. Try building GPSD with just the NMEA0183
> driver and SHM and a fixed baud rate sometime - socket_export turned
> off so it doesn't even speak JSON and doesn't watch port 2947. It
> works; I was careful about that. It's *tiny*.
Could be tinyer, but I think we are on the same wavelength.
> The main advantage of the gpsd-lite approach is that we know how to
> testframe that really well and we already do it.
Yup.
> This is a problem I solved a *long* time ago, well before working on
> NTPsec.
Solved might be a bit strong, but very close. To avoid confusion we
should refer to this as gpsd-lite, or, I'm open to a better name. People
hear just 'gpsd' and they think of the gpsd-max.
RGDS
GARY
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