Thread: Theory about why GPS performs poorly
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2008-02-07 , 11:28
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Originally Posted by jussik View Post
We'd still have to RE the data format and probably also the commands that are used to feed the data to the chip (unless gpsdriver does that somehow automatically, which I doubt).
GPS5300 promotional documents indicate that the chip may use either I2C or serial protocol to talk to the host and that it does most of the processing internally. As I understand, in N810 it is connected via serial.

Based on that, is it possible to patch into communications between GPS5300 and gpsdriver and reverse engineer the command protocol?