On 6/2/06, Will H. Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you looked at gpsd, which is BSD licensed? According to the author, they have very good device detection, so maybe you could use their device info database.
What we do in gpsd is a) try to protocol detection by running a sample of the data stream through the various decoders and b) sending probe packets to elicit chipset-specific messages. What we don't have is a catalog of the behaviour of every firmware revision with every message it actually sends. More than once I've seen discrepancies between what the manual says should be coming out at the receiver, and what actually comes out of the receiver. We make best efforts at parsing what we do get, and fixing it when someone reports funky results from such and such a device... CK -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
