Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Achim! > I just added a u-blox 6 GPS mouse, and split the SkyTraq PPS to go > into GPIO 4 and GPIO 18. So three PPS on one RasPi. I'll post > results later today, first I finish to compiling the new kernel with > the new multiple PPS patch. I'm comparing SkyTraq PPS to the u-blox 6 USB PPS.

Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Achim! On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:45:39 +0100 Achim Gratz via devel wrote: > Gary E. Miller via devel writes: > > I have some u-blox 6 that are USB mice. I get under 2 uS jitter on > > a RasPi, but I have not compared them directly to a GPIO PPS. I > > should add that to my long list. It takes

Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Gary E. Miller via devel writes: > I have some u-blox 6 that are USB mice. I get under 2 uS jitter on a > RasPi, but I have not compared them directly to a GPIO PPS. I should > add that to my long list. It takes a few days for the clocks to settle > in. Both my NaviSys stick (uBlox6) and puck (

Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Hal Murray via devel writes: >> PPS line discipline via USB virtual serial works and produces the expected >> ~1ms offsets due to the USB poll interval. It should be possible to remove >> that shift by doing a loopback measurement via RTS/CTS eventually. Jitter >> is roughly on par with the local

Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Achim! On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:58:57 +0100 Achim Gratz via devel wrote: > It seems to converge pretty nicely and with > jitter around 40µs now (around the same as LAN jitter). I have some u-blox 6 that are USB mice. I get under 2 uS jitter on a RasPi, but I have not compared them directly to

Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Achim Gratz via devel writes: > PPS line discipline via USB virtual serial works and produces the > expected ~1ms offsets due to the USB poll interval. Actually, that 1ms offset was due to the fact that the serial interface uses negative logic and I really need to align to the clear edge, not asse

Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> PPS line discipline via USB virtual serial works and produces the expected > ~1ms offsets due to the USB poll interval. It should be possible to remove > that shift by doing a loopback measurement via RTS/CTS eventually. Jitter > is roughly on par with the local stratum-1 over network. The U

Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Achim Gratz via devel writes: > I've ordered a bunch of RS232 converters and USB UART today along wth > another rasPi 3B and Tinkerboard, so I should be able to tell how much > better things get exactly when you use line disciplining on a virtual or > real serial port on these and also a PC soon.

Re: Additional pps-gpio

2018-01-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Trevor N. via devel writes: > If you're also going to test on a PC, you might be interested in > a Linux parallel port PPS driver I modified a while back to add > low-latency loopback echo and a mode that uses polling instead of > interrupts for pulse capture. Also, on load the driver measures IO >