Proposal: Location hackfest

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Aaron McCarthy <aaron.mccarthy at jolla.com> wrote:
> 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.

Just to inform you that I have to backup from some of my promises:
http://zee-nix.blogspot.com/2014/06/ofono-its-dead-jim.html

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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