> Hm. I think I get it - and you've just added a pretty powerful reason to > eventually pull the refclocks into a separate daemon by telling me I need to > get ntpd itself out of the PPS-watching business entirely in order to get > rid of that timer.
The reason I want to get rid of the every-second timer is to save power when operating on battery with no refclocks. If you have a PPS, you have to take an interrupt every second. I'm not a wizard on that area. It would be interesting to know if you can get useful interrupt responses when starting from a power-save mode. Similarly, can you wakeup in time to get data from a serial port without dropping any characters? It may be that power-save just won't happen if you are using refclocks. Moving the PPS processing out of ntpd doesn't change any of that. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
