GPS Driver: supported GPS driver

[peterwillcn]

Is it supported here（ https://www.ntp.org/documentation/drivers/ ）What about the GPS driver? Especially the Motorola Oncore GPS Receiver, a GPS time receiver with very high accuracy.

[JamesB192]

I do not work with the project, but they have been asked about this before. So synopsizing...

There are no plans to add ntp refclocks to ntpd-rs. Instead, the intent is to add a chrony type unix socket driver (not SHM); the one could run the mlichvar/ntp-refclock project, which supports many of the refclocks from ntpd. #882 #1138 #1361

Or did I hallucinate that?

[davidv1992]

Yes, we do intend to add a chrony type unix socket driver. Initial experiments on implementing this are currently ongoing and looking positive.

[peterwillcn]

Yes, Linux kernel drivers currently lack the aspect of Rust drivers. GPS drivers can be developed as a demonstration standard for the first introduction of the kernel, which can accelerate the integration of Rust into the Linux kernel.It is a good innovation attempt.

[davidv1992]

I think you misunderstand, these are not kernel drivers, but rather knowledge in the program itself to deal with certain types of hardware/software interfaces. Traditionally these have also been called drivers in the context of ntp.