Linux PHC configuration

Hardware timestamping, PHC offset strategies, smoothing, outlier filters, samples, one-step PTP, TAI offsets and startup PPS output.

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On Linux, Timebeat works with the kernel's PHC (Precision Hardware Clock) subsystem to read NIC clocks and synchronise them. The linux_specific block holds the deepest tuning surface in the agent — every option below is per-interface where indicated.

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