On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 06:55:18PM +0000, Shalom Toledo wrote:
> On 05/06/2019 20:23, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:30:06AM +0000, Shalom Toledo wrote:
> >> On 04/06/2019 17:17, Richard Cochran wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 03:12:39PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> >>>> From: Shalom Toledo <shal...@mellanox.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> The MTUTC register configures the HW UTC counter.
> >>>
> >>> Why is this called the "UTC" counter?
> >>>
> >>> The PTP time scale is TAI.  Is this counter intended to reflect the
> >>> Linux CLOCK_REALTIME system time?
> >>
> >> Exactly. The hardware doesn't have the ability to convert the FRC to UTC, 
> >> so
> >> we, as a driver, need to do it and align the hardware with this value.
> > 
> > What does "FRC" mean?
> 
> Free Running Counter

Okay, so then you want to convert it into TAI (for PTP) rather than UTC.

Thanks,
Richard

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