[gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO

[Frank Nicholas]

> On May 5, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> 
> The hardware management we keep should go into a separate refclockd that

Would refclockd be a part of NTP?  If so, I’d be ok with that.  I just have no need for GPSd on a pure time server.

> communicates with ntpd via SHM.  It's not clear why refclock 20 should
> survive thaat transition when gpsd is already better at adapting to
> weird sentence inventories than it is.

How portable is “SHM”?  Is it covered everywhere NTPSec wants to go?  Is GPSd portable to everywhere NTPSec wants to go? (I’m asking, not arguing - I don’t know the answers).

I know there are some bastardizations of NMEA, but of all the GPSd protocols, it’s probably the simplest, and for time control, we are taking about just using a minor fraction of it.

Thanks,
Frank