Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Maker Faire

Re:Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Ma... by tmuir on Saturday September 26, 2015 @01:11PM (#10283638)

I would imagine that there will never be a fully open source gps, as this would allow anyone to bypass the "am I a missle?" test.

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Re:Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Ma... by TD-Linux on Saturday September 26, 2015 @03:04PM (#10284082)

There are already many open source implementations of GPS using SDR.

In addition, most consumer GPSes just have firmware that does the SDR bit and output NMEA strings. There's literally no reason for the driver receiving NMEA strings to be proprietary.

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Re:Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Ma... by tmuir on Saturday September 26, 2015 @03:14PM (#10284113)

Then what is preventing an open source implementation from exceeding the 60,000 ft and 999mph limits imposed by the US DoD?

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Re:Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Ma... by TD-Linux on Sunday September 27, 2015 @02:06AM (#10285640)

Nothing.

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Re:Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Ma... by tbr on Saturday September 26, 2015 @01:40PM (#10283747)

Ndec claimed that there is interest from QC to have as much as possible implemented as open source.

We will see how far this goes.

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