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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2014-08-29 07:47:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2014-08-29 07:47:01 -0400 |
| commit | ac0412ff0b99d76db40f8072810f52f9ccd2e17b (patch) | |
| tree | ba0ca5833ad506450995335446c993097488cdb9 /www/hall-of-shame.html | |
| parent | b411c2a6faea5932b593c7fde586c28918bea7ec (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-ac0412ff0b99d76db40f8072810f52f9ccd2e17b.tar.gz | |
Add some warnings about SiRF-IV flakiness, and remove a related TO-DO item.
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diff --git a/www/hall-of-shame.html b/www/hall-of-shame.html index 15cd0891..f8e97727 100644 --- a/www/hall-of-shame.html +++ b/www/hall-of-shame.html @@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ is the only way to get the receiver to communicate again.</li> <li>Some Garmin chips issue a bogus length field, too. This from the outfit that likes to tout itself as the industry leader!</li> + +<li>The SiRF-IV chipset has a tendency to freeze when switched from +binary to NMEA mode (powering it off unjams it). This is some kind of +race condition in the firmware that cannot be fixed by waiting on +command ACKs; we've truid that.</p> </ul> <h2>Documentation blunders</h2> |