Re: [RFC] get gpsd to work with gnss-share

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > > > Why did the current gpsd/android not need to do this?    
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not familiar with Android, but I'm pretty sure they are not
> > > > using gnss-share.  
> > > 
> > > So you are not on Android?  I guess I am lost...  
> > 
> > I'm on PureOs, which is Debian variant for Librem 5 smartphone. But it
> > needs gnss-share for geoclue, and I need gpsd for foxtrotgps. Hence
> > my patch.
> 
> That sorta makes sense now.  Is this where your gnss-share is from:
> 
>     https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/gnss-share

Yes.

> Am I correct that gnss-share only gives you lat/lon, and no more?  I
> still need some doc to understand what is happening here.

No, it passes NMEA data from the hardware, so we got lat/lon,
satellite positions, and some extra data GNSS chip producess (cpu
frequency and cpu load). 

> > > > It carries usual NMEA data. It is very similar to TCP socket, but
> > > > it uses filename, not IP+port number. That way, filesystem
> > > > permissions can be used to limit who can see the NMEA data.  
> > > 
> > > If it is NMEA, can you just open it like a file?  Can gpsd also
> > > write to it?  
> > 
> > I don't think gpsd can take output from a file or pipe, it only worked
> > with ptyXX or ttyXX in my testing. AF_UNIX can not be simply opened.
> 
> You think wrong, but if you need a socket, I expect that can work.

Yes, we need AF_UNIX socket. (What are the options to get input from
pipe/file?)

> https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd

Thanks, will take a look.

> I'm still waiting on doc about this socket protocol.

Not really sure what you want here.

gnss-share takes data from /dev/gnss0, and pushes it to
/var/run/gnss-share.sock unmodified. [/dev/gnss0 can only be opened
once, so we need gnss-share to provide copies for geoclue and
gpsd]. Data are in NMEA. Kernel does not really document the protocol,
we could go to chip documentation but then it is going to be different
on different phones. cat /dev/gnss0 or nc -U /var/run/gnss-share.sock
can be used to dump the NMEA; but the cat only works if we are the
only user.

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel
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