Ryan Malloy 6881489bf6 The Cuckoo Escapement: field report, kernel patch, dashboard
What the Raspberry Pi time-server guides get wrong on a Pi 4, with the
measurements. The headline artifact is a four-line pps-gpio patch: PREEMPT_RT
force-threads IRQ handlers, and pps-gpio takes its timestamp inside its handler,
so the realtime kernel puts a scheduler between the electrical edge and the
clock. IRQF_NO_THREAD takes RMS offset from 2468 ns to 199 ns.

- kernel/     the patch
- dashboard/  live status page (position hidden by default)
- docs-site/  the write-up (Astro/Starlight, brass, no tutorial section)
2026-07-14 09:21:25 -06:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Idempotent install/update of the gps-ntp dashboard. Run on the Pi as root
# from the synced source tree (APPDIR). Safe to re-run.
set -euo pipefail
APPDIR="${APPDIR:-/opt/gpsntp-dashboard}"
SVC=gpsntp-dashboard
echo "==> dedicated system user"
id -u gpsntp &>/dev/null || useradd --system --no-create-home --shell /usr/sbin/nologin gpsntp
echo "==> python venv + editable install"
if [ ! -x "$APPDIR/.venv/bin/python" ]; then
if ! python3 -m venv "$APPDIR/.venv" 2>/dev/null; then
apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y python3-venv python3-pip
python3 -m venv "$APPDIR/.venv"
fi
fi
"$APPDIR/.venv/bin/pip" install --quiet --upgrade pip
"$APPDIR/.venv/bin/pip" install --quiet -e "$APPDIR"
echo "==> narrow sudoers rule (clients command only)"
install -m 0440 "$APPDIR/deploy/gpsntp-dashboard.sudoers" /etc/sudoers.d/gpsntp-dashboard
visudo -cf /etc/sudoers.d/gpsntp-dashboard
echo "==> systemd unit"
install -m 0644 "$APPDIR/deploy/gpsntp-dashboard.service" "/etc/systemd/system/${SVC}.service"
echo "==> ownership"
chown -R gpsntp:gpsntp "$APPDIR"
echo "==> enable + (re)start"
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable "${SVC}.service" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
systemctl restart "${SVC}.service"
sleep 2
systemctl is-active "${SVC}.service" && echo "==> dashboard active on :8080"