Commit 329f0041 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet

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: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 28aedd7e
:orphan:
* PTP hardware clock infrastructure for Linux
===========================================
PTP hardware clock infrastructure for Linux
===========================================
This patch set introduces support for IEEE 1588 PTP clocks in
Linux. Together with the SO_TIMESTAMPING socket options, this
......@@ -22,7 +25,8 @@
- Period output signals configurable from user space
- Synchronization of the Linux system time via the PPS subsystem
** PTP hardware clock kernel API
PTP hardware clock kernel API
=============================
A PTP clock driver registers itself with the class driver. The
class driver handles all of the dealings with user space. The
......@@ -36,7 +40,8 @@
development, it can be useful to have more than one clock in a
single system, in order to allow performance comparisons.
** PTP hardware clock user space API
PTP hardware clock user space API
=================================
The class driver also creates a character device for each
registered clock. User space can use an open file descriptor from
......@@ -49,7 +54,8 @@
ancillary clock features. User space can receive time stamped
events via blocking read() and poll().
** Writing clock drivers
Writing clock drivers
=====================
Clock drivers include include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h and register
themselves by presenting a 'struct ptp_clock_info' to the
......@@ -66,14 +72,17 @@
class driver, since the lock may also be needed by the clock
driver's interrupt service routine.
** Supported hardware
Supported hardware
==================
* Freescale eTSEC gianfar
+ Freescale eTSEC gianfar
- 2 Time stamp external triggers, programmable polarity (opt. interrupt)
- 2 Alarm registers (optional interrupt)
- 3 Periodic signals (optional interrupt)
+ National DP83640
* National DP83640
- 6 GPIOs programmable as inputs or outputs
- 6 GPIOs with dedicated functions (LED/JTAG/clock) can also be
used as general inputs or outputs
......@@ -81,6 +90,7 @@
- GPIO outputs can produce periodic signals
- 1 interrupt pin
+ Intel IXP465
* Intel IXP465
- Auxiliary Slave/Master Mode Snapshot (optional interrupt)
- Target Time (optional interrupt)
......@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ ts[1] used to hold hardware timestamps converted to system time.
Instead, expose the hardware clock device on the NIC directly as
a HW PTP clock source, to allow time conversion in userspace and
optionally synchronize system time with a userspace PTP stack such
as linuxptp. For the PTP clock API, see Documentation/ptp/ptp.txt.
as linuxptp. For the PTP clock API, see Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst.
Note that if the SO_TIMESTAMP or SO_TIMESTAMPNS option is enabled
together with SO_TIMESTAMPING using SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE, a false
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......@@ -12765,7 +12765,7 @@ L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
W: http://linuxptp.sourceforge.net/
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp
F: Documentation/ptp/*
F: Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst
F: drivers/net/phy/dp83640*
F: drivers/ptp/*
F: include/linux/ptp_cl*
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