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init_gps() called only for EM406?

Posted by Ground Loop on September 18, 2010 at 10:51am

I'm going through the ArduIMU code to enable an MTK GPS, and I noticed this odd part of setup():

//Setup EM406 for SIRF binary mode at 38400bit/s
#if GPS_PROTOCOL == 2
init_gps();
#endif

This would imply that only the EM406 GPS configuration calls init_gps(), but each GPS of every type defines such a function.

I can't see how the MTK init_gps() ever gets called, for example.

What am I missing?

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Developer

Doug Weibel September 18, 2010 at 2:40pm

Yes, I am maintaining it, or at least I should be. I'll try to spend some time on it next week. There are a variety of things that are broke wrt gps.

Chris, thanks for turning on the issues list. That will help motivate me ;)
Developer

Jason Short September 18, 2010 at 11:42am

Chris,
I think Doug is maintaining this, but I noticed there is no issues list on the ArduIMU project page. Is that something you can enable?
Jason
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Chris Anderson September 18, 2010 at 11:06am

init_gps() is only needed for GPS modules that need to be switched into binary. We now do that automatically in the MTK library, rather than with a special init call (or should do; it's a recent addition and I haven't tested it)