Dear linuxptp users and developers,
The project is now just over one year old, and everything on my todo
list has been implemented (or at least everything important to me).
We have had a few bugs fixed via the email lists, and there have also
been a number of nice improvements contributed over that last few
months.
Up until now I haven't released any tar ball on SF.net, and so I
wonder whether it is time to publish a 1.0 version. I think the
present state is quite useable and stable, and there haven't been any
bugs reported recently.
The following features have already been finished:
- Hardware and software time stamping.
- Linux PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) subsystem, and
synchronizing the system clock to it.
- Boundary Clock and Ordinary Clock.
- IEEE 802.1AS-2011 in the role of end station.
- Transport over UDP/IPv4, UDP/IPv6, and raw Ethernet (Layer 2 and VLAN).
- Profile configuration via INI like files.
- Reading out of the data sets via management messages.
- Path trace TLV.
- Man pages.
Here some features that can wait for some future release, if demand
appears for them:
- Transparent clock.
- Asymmetry correction.
- Reading out individual data set elements via management messages.
- Reconfiguration (SET and COMMAND) via management messages.
- DeviceNET, ControlNET, and PROFINET transports.
- All other "optional" stuff, like unicast, alternate masters, and so on.
What do you all think, is it time for a release?
Or should we even bother with numbered releases at all?
Thanks,
Richard
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