Using realtime clock?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <4.3.2.20010110104647.00baee80 at falcon.si.com> you wrote:
>
> The astronomy people, among others, are really fanatical about accurate
> time and have some very elaborate programs to synchronize clocks to the
> nanosecond (microsecond?) level.  These involve NTP daemons.  Note that
> the NTP daemons can synchronize to a radio clock that provides a
> 1/second tick: your simplest solution would probably be to set up your
> accurate RTC to do a 1/second interrupt and then tie it into a NTP
> daemon to keep your kernel clock accurate.

Seems a bit of overhead (especially for embedded systems with limited
resources) to add a NTP daemon just to make one part  of  the  kernel
timekeeping toal to the other...

Wolfgang Denk

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