sparkfun/SparkFun_Ublox_Arduino_Library

Zephyr driver

sslupsky opened this issue · 2 comments

sslupsky commented

Subject of the issue

This should probably be someplace else but I am not sure where to ask it.

I've been doing some work with the Zephyr RTOS and wondering if Sparkfun is considering porting some of their drivers to Zephyr? If so, I could help out with some testing.

I think the current Arduino driver would port over reasonably well. Though this driver is written in C++ and Zephyr drivers need to be written in C, there isn't much dependency on C++ that I can see. The I2C and UART API's are a bit different but I think this would not be too much problem.

The bigger thing to consider is if you choose to do this you would be the first to develop a GPS driver for Zephyr. So, likely there would be a need to get consensus with the Zephyr guys on an GPS API. Some of that work is already done (data types for GPS "sensors" are defined). But a GPS sensor API does not exist to my knowledge.

IMHO, Zephyr has some pretty interesting potential. Still kinda rough around the edges but it is pretty slick.

nseidle commented

Hi @sslupsky - We welcome support for additional platforms. Indeed, Zephyr looks pretty neat! If anyone wants to wants to port our Ublox lib to pure C we are happy to consider a shift in that direction.

vid553 commented

Hi,
I saw this issue for a Zephyr version of the library, so also writing a comment here.

I have created a pull request #145 that ports this library to Zephyr OS.
Note that it doesn't have a GPS API and I left it in C++, so it is not a proper solution as described by @sslupsky, but it provides a basic working port to this platform.