[LinuxPPS] A few drivers

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:04:52PM +1100, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm back after disappearing for a few months.
> 
>  I have two drivers to work with PPS:
> 
> 1. a driver which takes a PPS signal from an ISA interrupt request.
> This may be useful for people who play with embedded systems and have
> certain types of GPS on PC-104 boards.
> 
> 2. a driver for the WinSystems PPM-GPS board.  The board is a PC-104
> type and has a dual 16552C UART plus a GPS.  The GPS can generate a
> PPS interrupt request on the ISA bus.  The UART channel used by the
> GPS also generates an IRQ of course.  The second UART channel is
> unused but is typically connected to a cellular modem.  The driver
> sets up the PPS and also creates multiple pseudo-devices for the GPS
> so that several processes can get information from the GPS.  The
> function is actually tailored for use in a system I am building, but
> it is probably a good template for other people who may wish to use
> this same hardware.  And before anyone asks, yes, I had a look at
> "gpsd" and tested it and it is absolutely unsuitable for my work.
> 
> Is anyone interested in looking at the code or using it?

Are these drivers for kernel land? If so can you provide some patches
(at least one per driver) against latest LinuxPPS version? Please use
the GIT support.

Good job! :)

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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