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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] net-timestamp: explicit SO_TIMESTAMPING
 ancillary data struct
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 22:18:17 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:44:44PM -0700, Chad Reese wrote:
> 
> For Octeon, you can optionally use the hardware timestamp as the
> system clock reference. Most people don't, but it is the only way to
> get the system time to be accurate. 1588 can synchronize two Octeon
> boards to less than 1ns for the hardware timer. The Linux software
> timers is always farther off.

Did you mean 1us ?

Thanks,
Richard