Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] gnss: Add driver for AI2 protocol

[Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 08:53:27 +0100
Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> wrote:

> Dear Andreas,
> 
> 
> Thank you for your patch.
> 
> 
> Am 28.01.24 um 18:33 schrieb Andreas Kemnade:
> > Add a driver for the Air Independent Interface protocol used by some TI
> > Wilink combo chips. Per default, send out just NMEA to userspace and turn
> > on/off things at open()/close() but keep the door open for any
> > sophisticated development regarding the AI2 protocol by having a kernel
> > parameter to turn it into raw mode resembling /dev/tigps provided by some
> > TI vendor kernels.  
> 
> It’d be great, if you could add the name the kernel parameter *ai2raw*, 
> and also document at least one of these vendor kernels.
> 
> Could you give a high level overview of the driver design?
> 
basically I rely on the hci_ll stuff for doing wakeup and initializing
the firmware. So I queue up there another sort of TLV construction besides
the Bluetooth packets using the hci_dev infrastructure and offload all the
GNSS specific handling to a platform subdevice.
So in raw AI2 mode, the input is just en/decapsulated into GPS_CH9_OP_READ/WRITE
packets and sent/recv via the hci queuing system (gnss_recv_frame() / ai2_send_frame()).

On top of that in NMEA mode, proper intialization is done at
open()/close(). The commands are in ai2_compose_frame() prepared by adding
checksums, escaping any occurance of 0x10 and adding start/end markes()
In the rx path, the mechanism works the other way round and if the packet
is an NMEA report it is sent to userspace.

> What device did you test with?
>
As said in 0/3 I am testing with an Epson Moverio BT-200 containing
a WL1283.

Regards,
Andreas