[Asterisk-Users] Digium should develop and sell just Dummy card. For timing...

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Its a free world and everyone is entitled to their opinion.  Here's mine
on this topic.  The cards aren't so expensive (99.95 USD).  If they have
their own hardware then they don't have to depend on the target system
having a particular configuration.  Example:  right now I am running * on
a system that has NO USB ports so couldn't use USB for timing. That makes
their programming much easier.

As has already been pointed out, nothing keeps someone from writing
patches to use some other timing device.  Digium is nice enough to put
Asterisk as public software. Lets don't screw that up. Be part of the
solution, don't complain about the problem. If you have a solution
suggestion then post it.. probably others would be happy to help you

Robert

>> > If the software needs a specialcard to keep time then the
>> > software is broken or poorly designed.
>
>> Don't complain so loudly unless you're willing to contribute the
>> fixes.  Opinions are like assholes, and you know where that's going.
>> Takes something else entirely to fix a perceived problem.
>
> He is correct though; I am willing to put money on the idea that the
> Tiger320 chip is NOT a stratum 1 time device (or even stratum 3 for that
> matter) -- Chances are that Digium was trying to tie in their hardware and
> make money to support * that way, and you can't really fault them for
> that.
>
> There's quite a difference between an uninformed opinion and the opinion
> of
> someone who's actually written software and designed hardware that meet
> more stringent requirements than what is being discussed, do you not
> think?
>
> I agree though -- there is _no_ reason why the USB, RTC or even regular
> PIT
> timer can't do this job just as easily...  In fact, both USB and RTC
> options have been created and seem to work just fine for most people.
> Providing hardware to do this also gives an advantage that * can be ported
> to multiple platforms with minimal software shuffling, and since drivers
> would have to be written for the card anyway, you've got your time source
> with you where ever you go.
>
> There are a number of questions that keep coming up that Digium seems
> unwilling to answer.  It'd be nice if they just came right out and said
> "Guys we need to make money to support * development, this is how we are
> proposing to do it..." but instead we get closed lips and speculation.
>
> It does seem that there are a number of systems out there that have
> marginally-compliant PCI busses or some other slightly odd aspect to them
> that make jitter and echo on * worse than other systems.  It'd be really
> nice to get a database of known-bad hardware together.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew