On Wednesday 27 December 2006 15:26, Marcus Bauer wrote: > > Considering that we have an userland application that drives the chip, > > shouldn't it be relatively straight forward to reverse engineer the > > protocol? > That takes time and with every new version of the phone the game starts > all over. Closed source driver have always been a pain on Linux and > still are.
It's not a real driver, it's userland daemon. It should work across different versions of the kernel for all I understand. > As FIC is planning to buy 100.000 of the chips per month they have > enough buying power to communicate to GL that open specs are indeed a > selling point. One would hope so, yes. > As the open source community supports FIC, so can do FIC in return. We > just need to push them a little bit. I hope there's no need for that. Considering the stance they've taken on WiFi (which is, in some way, even more extreme), they'll annoy A LOT of people if don't take the same stance on the GPS.
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