[gpsd-dev] GPSd with Broadcom bcm4752

[amacias]

Hi GPSd people,
 I've been working on an Android/Ubuntu 14 (Desktop) dual boot tablet.

The GPS was a big problem because Broadcom's code is not free and for 
Android we only had the binary "gpsd" service.
That "gpsd" service is NOT your GPSd, is a software like Gllin for 
OpenMoko http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gllin#Using_gpsd_with_gllin
Is a software that reads binay data from /dev/ttyMFD1 and gives to you 
NMEA data in a socket (similar to /tmp/nmeaNP in Gllin).

So my solution was to start the Android's "gpsd" in a "chrooted" Android 
and then start GPSd using that socket as the device.

BUT I had to change some code in GPSd because when you read NMEA data 
from the device you assume that the "read" call may return one (and only 
one) NMEA string. And in my case, the "read" call reads more than one 
NMEA string, so I had to change the code to split the strings each time 
a "\n" is detected.

Patch file attached. This patch applies on GPSd 3.9-3 (Ubuntu 14).

I've added a "-t" parameter to read the data as "text" instead of 
"binary".

Thank you and best regards!

01_bcm4752.patch
Description: Text Data