summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/www
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2015-02-15 15:01:15 -0500
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2015-02-15 15:01:15 -0500
commitde1c62b5fe0162b6c821a88a27a1b9f6ff10c569 (patch)
tree5b0046b0f724fdb644a4fd17627a77e0dca1ed47 /www
parenta7e808a911b0a56d18206cb42747cc23dd24971e (diff)
downloadgpsd-de1c62b5fe0162b6c821a88a27a1b9f6ff10c569.tar.gz
Update hacking guide - PDAs are dead, long live smartphones.
No code changes.
Diffstat (limited to 'www')
-rw-r--r--www/hacking.html.in17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/www/hacking.html.in b/www/hacking.html.in
index b69853d8..1c23520a 100644
--- a/www/hacking.html.in
+++ b/www/hacking.html.in
@@ -154,19 +154,20 @@ job is to know the grotty details so nobody else has to.</p>
<h1 id="audience">Audience and supported hardware</h1>
-<p>Our paradigm user, the one we have in mind when making design choices,
-is running navigational or wardriving software on a Linux laptop or
-PDA. Some of our developers are actively interested in supporting
+<p>Our paradigm user, the one we have in mind when making design
+choices, is running navigational or wardriving software on a Linux-based
+mobile device (including both laptops and Android mobile
+devices). Some of our developers are actively interested in supporting
GPS-with-SBC (Single-Board-Computer) hardware such as is used in
balloon telemetry, marine navigation, and aviation.</p>
<p>These two use cases have similar issues in areas like client
-interfaces and power/duty-cycle management. The one place where
-they differ substantially is that in the SBC case we generally
+interfaces and power/duty-cycle management. The one place where they
+differ substantially is that in the SBC and Android cases we generally
know in advance what devices will be connected and when. Thus, by
-designing for the less predictable laptop/PDA environment, we
-cover both. But it is not by accident that the source code can be built
-with support for only any single GPS type compiled in.</p>
+designing for the less predictable laptop environment, we cover both.
+But it is not by accident that the source code can be built with
+support for only one single GPS type compiled in.</p>
<p>While we will support survey-grade GPSes when and if we have that
hardware for testing, our focus will probably remain on inexpensive