Output PTP sync'd PPS on Jetson Orin Development Kit

I hope what I want to achive is simple, but looking at some posts it doesn’t look that straight-forward.
I want to synchronize a Jetson Orin Development Kit via Ethernet Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and I want to measure accuracy of that synchronized time to a time-master by comparing PPS outputs of the time master and the Jetson Orin.

So: Is there a possibility to output a PPS signal based on a system-time or synchronized PTP time on one of the pins of the I/O-rows of the Orin Development Kit?

I found a similar question here, but the answer didn’t really touch the question: Can ORIN output PPS signal? - Jetson & Embedded Systems / Jetson AGX Orin - NVIDIA Developer Forums

Hi daniel.hopf,

As my understanding, PPS is used as the input for Jetson to synchronize the time.
Please refer to the following thread for details.
Enable PSS on Jetson-GPIO Pin Header - #9 by KevinFFF

Thanks for the reference @KevinFFF. Since I wrote that I want to output a PPS signal, the other thread doesn’t seem to help me.
There needs to be a possibility for the Orin Development Kit to trigger a pin once per second, right? If it is triggered at the start of every second and the system time is synchronized using PTP, I should be able to derive the precision of the sync to another sync’ed node on the network.

Sorry that I don’t have the experience with this use case(output a PPS signal)
Do you see any document for this use case? Or which driver is used for output a PPS signal?

Sorry, but I don’t really understand what you mean by “document for this use case”. I haven’t looked at NVIDIA provided manuals yet.
I also don’t know which driver is used to output a PPS signal. I would think that’s a system setting which can be set in preparation of the image!?

For your use case, it seems you would need a driver to control and output the signal, not just a system setting could implement.
Output the PPS seems not default supported feature and there’s no driver to handle this currently.

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