Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH 00/11] synce4l: add software for Synchronous Ethernet

[Miroslav L. <mli...@re...>]

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:51:01AM -0700, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 11:05:54AM +0200, Arkadiusz Kubalewski wrote:
> > synce4l is a software implementation of Synchronous Ethernet (Sync-E)
> > according to ITU-T Recommendation G.8264. The design goal is to provide
> > logic to supported hardware by processing Ethernet Synchronization
> > Messaging Channel (ESMC) and control Digital Phase Locked Loop (DPLL)
> > clock on Network Card Interface (NIC).
> 
> The bulk of this is a new, stand alone program.  One comment that I
> received off list questioned whether this program should be part of
> linuxptp, or does it deserve its own project?

synce4l as submitted doesn't share much with the rest of linuxptp, but
that could change with support for the L1_SYNC TLV from 1588-2019. I
think it would need to be handled by ptp4l itself, or at least
by something communicating with ptp4l over UDS.

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Miroslav Lichvar