[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] mobile phones

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 26/06/2017 at 10:34:07 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> So we currently have GPSes on serial, producing NMEA. Gpsd there may
> be good enough. But then we have different hardware, not producing
> NMEA (GPS on N900 is exposed as network packet over PHONET
> interface, there's drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c with who-knows-what
> interface)... and it would be nice to have good, "native" GPS
> interface which would work in this case. (We'd like timestamps for
> incoming data and lat/long/alt + speed in lat/long/alt + error in
> lat/long/alt sampled at the same time, at the very least).
> 

garmin_gps is actually not desirable and is better handled in
userspace, see:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USB_Garmin_on_GNU/Linux



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