On Friday 28 March 2008 12:07:46 Tim Niemeyer wrote: > > I modified the openmoko-panel-gps applet and let user can power > > on/off the gps module for with GUI on GTA02v5. > > What is with GTA01? > Souldn't it be possible to power gps on/off there also?
In theory yes, in practice gllin already handles at least powering on and there's little reason to turn gps on without running gllin -- which is the only thing that can turn the raw data into NMEA. > Is there a way to figure out on wich machine we are in userspace, so > that the panel applet could decide what to do? Absolutely, you can cat /proc/cpuinfo to see which hardware you're on. However: > Or should the applet only > start/stop the gps-hardware/gps init script, wich is different on > GTA01/02? Yes, at least for the time being (where all PM interfaces are pretty much ad-hoc and not yet compliant to our dbus API spec) this would be the best approach. :M:
