linuxptp-users

[Linuxptp-users] linuxptp support for transparent mode

[Lide, D. <dl...@ti...>]

anyone working on ptp transparent mode (ete, peer2peer)  support for this stack ?

thanks,
dave

Re: [Linuxptp-users] linuxptp support for transparent mode

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:22:22PM +0000, Lide, David wrote:
> anyone working on ptp transparent mode (ete, peer2peer)  support for this stack ?

If you mean implementing a transparent clock using linuxptp, then no,
nobody is working on it, as far as I know. The problem is that a TC is
a kind of a switch, and it looks like managed switches do not have
very broad support in the Linux kernel. The is a "DSA" driver for a
few Marvell switches, but I am not familiar with the details of DSA.

For linuxptp to support TC, we would need a unified way to talk with
the switch hardware.

Thanks,
Richard