Support for a GNSS and GPS Subsystem

Posted by bob on Sep 27, 2018 4:00 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Zack Brown
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Johan Hovold posted patches to add a GNSS subsystem (Global Navigation Satellite System), used by GPS devices. His idea was that commercial GPS devices might use any input/output ports and protocols—serial, USB and whatnot—forcing user code to perform difficult probes in order to determine which hardware it was dealing with. Johan's code would unify the user interface under a /dev/gnss0 file that would hide the various hardware differences.

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