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docs: ptp.txt: convert to ReST and move to driver-api
The conversion is trivial: just adjust title markups. In order to avoid conflicts, let's add an :orphan: tag to it, to be removed when this file gets added to the driver-api book. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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* PTP hardware clock infrastructure for Linux
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===========================================
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PTP hardware clock infrastructure for Linux
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===========================================
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This patch set introduces support for IEEE 1588 PTP clocks in
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Linux. Together with the SO_TIMESTAMPING socket options, this
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- Period output signals configurable from user space
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- Synchronization of the Linux system time via the PPS subsystem
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** PTP hardware clock kernel API
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PTP hardware clock kernel API
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=============================
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A PTP clock driver registers itself with the class driver. The
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class driver handles all of the dealings with user space. The
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development, it can be useful to have more than one clock in a
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single system, in order to allow performance comparisons.
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** PTP hardware clock user space API
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PTP hardware clock user space API
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=================================
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The class driver also creates a character device for each
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registered clock. User space can use an open file descriptor from
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ancillary clock features. User space can receive time stamped
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events via blocking read() and poll().
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** Writing clock drivers
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Writing clock drivers
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=====================
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Clock drivers include include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h and register
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themselves by presenting a 'struct ptp_clock_info' to the
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class driver, since the lock may also be needed by the clock
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driver's interrupt service routine.
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** Supported hardware
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Supported hardware
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==================
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* Freescale eTSEC gianfar
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+ Freescale eTSEC gianfar
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- 2 Time stamp external triggers, programmable polarity (opt. interrupt)
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- 2 Alarm registers (optional interrupt)
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- 3 Periodic signals (optional interrupt)
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+ National DP83640
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* National DP83640
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- 6 GPIOs programmable as inputs or outputs
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- 6 GPIOs with dedicated functions (LED/JTAG/clock) can also be
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used as general inputs or outputs
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- GPIO outputs can produce periodic signals
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- 1 interrupt pin
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+ Intel IXP465
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* Intel IXP465
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- Auxiliary Slave/Master Mode Snapshot (optional interrupt)
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- Target Time (optional interrupt)
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Instead, expose the hardware clock device on the NIC directly as
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a HW PTP clock source, to allow time conversion in userspace and
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optionally synchronize system time with a userspace PTP stack such
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as linuxptp. For the PTP clock API, see Documentation/ptp/ptp.txt.
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as linuxptp. For the PTP clock API, see Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst.
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Note that if the SO_TIMESTAMP or SO_TIMESTAMPNS option is enabled
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together with SO_TIMESTAMPING using SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE, a false
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S: Maintained
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W: http://linuxptp.sourceforge.net/
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F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp
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F: Documentation/ptp/*
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F: Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst
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F: drivers/net/phy/dp83640*
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F: drivers/ptp/*
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F: include/linux/ptp_cl*
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