Bi-weekly OpenMoko community update

Mikko J Rauhala mjrauhal at cc.helsinki.fi
Tue Oct 16 18:52:41 CEST 2007


On ti, 2007-10-16 at 12:52 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Lars Hallberg wrote:
> > Butt... For the old GTA01, that have the old chip, and that will not be
> > used in the future, it is completely sufficient with a binary driver 
> > accessible thru the same interface as the GTA02 phones
>
> Probably not the same interface, since gllin insists on this
> /tmp/nmeaP whereas more recent gps daemons spit out the information
> via dbus.

One would imagine the common abstraction being such a daemon, and gllin
acting as a mere frontend to it. Other than some extra memory
consumption (which isn't quite the trivial matter on this device, to be
sure), shouldn't be problematic, or?

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Mikko J Rauhala <mjrauhal at cc.helsinki.fi>
University of Helsinki





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