Proposal: Location hackfest

[Aaron McCarthy]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 00:00:19 Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> I had a bit of chat with ofono guys. They told me that ofono does
> indeed have GPS "API" but its raw NMEA sentences fed through some fds
> rather than directly on the D-Bus interface.
> 
> I think I'll add an ofono backend soon and would hope that that is all
> I need (apart from missing API you mentioned) to do to make geoclue2
> work for your platform. :)

Support in the ofono modem driver will also need to be implemented. In my 
ofono checkout (from mer version mer/1.14+git32), only the mbmmodem and 
qmimodem drivers have location reporting support. Jolla uses rilmodem.

Cheers,

-- 
Aaron McCarthy