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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2005-06-10 15:45:18 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2005-06-10 15:45:18 +0000
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Documentation update, looking towards stable release.
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@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ Things we've considered doing and rejected.
Tempting -- it would allow us to do sirfmon-like things with the
daemon running -- but a bad idea. It would make denial-of-service
-attacks on applications using the GPS far too easy. For examples,
+attacks on applications using the GPS far too easy. For example,
suppose the control string were a baud-rate change?
*** Using libusb to do USB device discovery
@@ -510,6 +510,12 @@ expert, reckons that at 4800bps the UART buffering can cause at most
about 15msec of jitter. This is, observably, swamped by other less
controllable sources of variation.
+*** Evermore binary protocol
+
+Described at <http://www-ri.hive.no/nmea/GM-X205_UG_revB.pdf>.
+Doesn't seem to support any capabilities that NMEA doesn't, other
+than shipping TDOP.
+
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