On Tuesday, October 02, 2012 08:01:03 PM Neil Jerram wrote: > Attached is a patch to make QtMoko's GPS framework (Q*Whereabouts) use > gpsd instead of reading directly from /dev/ttyO1. The benefit of that > is that multiple clients, both Qt and non-Qt, can all use GPS at the > same time.
Nice, i was trying to do something like this too, but without any results. But I wonder how much is gpsd useful for us now. We have lightweight Whereabouts framework which now works good on GTA02 and GTA04. On GTA02 it even handles supplying AGPS data. I wonder what GPSD can do for us. It's another program running in background eating system resources. The programs that will use GPSD will be poorly integrated in QtMoko - i.e. not showing the fix status in title bar, no blinking with LED to indicated NMEA activity, no AGPS. This leads us to question - how many programs will use the GPSD. Navit can be quite easily adjusted to use QWereabouts, i think the same can be done with Monav and Marble. And one more thing - i hate GPSD because they are breaking API compatibility and we have no control of it. I want now to do some wheezy/armhf experimental release for GTA04 and if wheezy/sqeeze gpsd are not compatible then it's quite problem... Regards Radek _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community