[time-nuts] Modern HW replacement for ATOM based NTP server?

Didier Juges shalimr9 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 16:41:52 UTC 2015


Is the new RPi2 any different in that regard?

On April 7, 2015 8:17:12 AM CDT, Daniel Mendes <dmendesf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Internally the rPI is a ver awkward beast: the CPU is connected to a 
>GPU, and the GPU is connected to the GPIOs... so lots of jitter and
>latency.
>
>It was designed to be a video decoder... the CPU is there for testing 
>and housekeeping. It works, surelly, but it´s not designed to have low 
>latency and jitter.
>
>Daniel
>
>On 07/04/2015 09:39, Hal Murray wrote:
>> albertson.chris at gmail.com said:
>>> In terms of performance, ARM based credit card sized computers do
>well if
>>> you can get the PPS to the general purpose I/O pin that interrupts
>on an
>>> edge.  the Pi can't do that the BeagleBone Black can and it sell for
>$45.
>> What/why can't the Pi do?  I have one handy that is processing a PPS
>on a
>> GPIO pin.
>>
>> David Taylor has a web page with all the fine print on how to set it
>up.
>> (Thanks.)
>>
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