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

[Kubalewski, A. <ark...@in...>]

>On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 09:23:25PM +0000, Kubalewski, Arkadiusz wrote:
>> Richard,
>> I know our solution in its current state is far from being perfect.
>> It communicates with EEC by shell commands specified by the user, but at least
>> it is not specific for any particular hardware.
>> Although it doesn't configure EEC, as it shall be preconfigured before using our
>> solution.
>
>I'm not able to judge between the two new projects based on technical
>merits, because I simply have no time to do so.
>
>WRT integration into linuxptp, seeing as there is no agreement on a
>path forward, I am not going to merge any major new SyncE services
>into linuxptp.
>
>May I suggest that both SyncE projects publish their code on
>GH/whatever and build their communities.  Competition is a good thing
>in the OSS world!
>
>For the interaction between SyncE services and ptp4l, let's discuss
>proposals for new management messages here in this channel.  I'm sure
>we can come with message formats that will work for any SyncE use
>case.
>
>Thanks,
>Richard
>

Thank you very much Richard!

BR,
Arkadiusz