Broadcom4751GPS¶

Files¶

The non-free files holding the GPS infos/code are the following:

/system/vendor/bin/gpsd
/system/vendor/lib/hw/gps.s5pc110.so
/system/vendor/etc/gps.xml
/system/etc/gps.conf

Protocol¶

Apparently, the protocol that is used by the chip to provide the GPS infos is MEIF. The GPSD component is in charge of translating that to standard NMEA that is sent to the gps.s5pc110.so lib via the /dev/socket/gps Unix socket, created by GPSD.

Attempts¶

We have written code to read data from the correct serial interface: https://gitorious.org/replicant/crespo-gps-utils

It currently doesn't work: it fails to somehow boot the chip. Though, it works after starting gpsd once and stopping it. It must be doing some kind of magic code to start the chip.

Related gps.xml parameters¶

We have tried to change some parameters in gps.xml to see how it behaves:

After all, it seems that when the gpsd binary is running without the gps.s5pc110.so library, the chip isn't started (our test utility doesn't work) whereas when the library is running and connects to the socket when it is created by starting gpsd, the chip is booted. The init code is probably in gps.s5pc110.so then.