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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2006-12-15 07:57:51 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2006-12-15 07:57:51 +0000 |
commit | 38f91b434edf5f1fbda9969250160c39a7c83034 (patch) | |
tree | de1fa5891b24321c77d9a653137a0ad4ae171c42 /TODO | |
parent | 37b86b4c3ccf5a5a83ca4128b46ca8d5b7c11b7d (diff) | |
download | gpsd-38f91b434edf5f1fbda9969250160c39a7c83034.tar.gz |
One more for the to-do list.
Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 22 deletions
@@ -21,28 +21,6 @@ fix the driver yourself and send us the patch, contact Bill Powell <bpowell@tntc.com> at True North Technologies and tell him he needs to reverse his refusal to send us an eval unit. -*** Support for Garmin USB binary in serial mode is currently broken - -We rewrote the Garmin USB binary support in a different mode to -work around a bug in the Linux 2.16 tty layer. Unfortunately, -some newer Garmin USB models seem to be prone to some kind of -race condition or internal timing issue when the gpsd driver -returns ACK responses too fast. (The lvcvideo project has seen -a similar issue on their USB project, so it may be a problem with -the USB controller chip rather than the GPS hardware or firmware.) - -Some users report the Garmin driver only works reliably at -D6 or up. -Some users report no problems at all. Some delays have been inserted -that may solve the problem, but more reports from the field will be -needed before we can be reasonably sure it has been solved. - -The new driver also requires a tool to switch between binary and NMEA -modes. There is experimental untested code to do this via gpsctl, but -it could do anything including make bats fly out of your nose. - -The new Garmin driver and gpsctl should be much more solid in the next -point release. - *** There's a report that RoyalTek support broke between 2.25 and 2.28 There's a report that RoyalTek support broke between 2.25 and 2.28 by @@ -81,6 +59,10 @@ the same output on any given platform. This corresponds to 1mm accuracy, which is better than the horizontal accuracy of RTK GPS. +*** Full Python wrapper for libgpsd + +This would be useful for test code of all kinds. + *** New features for xgps. Add J option checkbox. Maybe embed the speedometer widget from |