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Joachim Wiberg 3426c2527b Add phc2sys companion service for BC/TC instances
On multi-chip DSA hardware (e.g., boards with multiple mv88e6xxx
chips), each switch chip has its own independent PHC device.  With
boundary_clock_jbod enabled, ptp4l starts but only disciplines the
active slave port's PHC — the others drift.

Automatically start phc2sys -a alongside any BC or TC instance using
hardware timestamping.  It subscribes to ptp4l's UDS socket, tracks
BMCA, and disciplines all non-active PHCs to match the active one.
On single-chip hardware it is a harmless no-op.

CLOCK_REALTIME is intentionally left untouched.  Syncing the system
clock to PTP (phc2sys -rr), feeding the PHC from GPS/NTP (ts2phc,
phc2sys reverse), and full multi-source coordination (timemaster) are
planned as follow-on phases; see the issue tracker for the roadmap.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2026-04-23 14:19:10 +02:00

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service <!> name:phc2sys :%i log:prio:daemon,tag:phc2sys-%i \
[2345] phc2sys -a -z /var/run/ptp4l-%i \
-- PHC synchronization for PTP instance %i