Removing the worst cruft

[Mark Atwood]

Can the palisade/trimble driver be replaced with a parse driver?

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 4:23 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> >
> > esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > > Drivers that very well might fail the ten-year test: truetime,
> magnavox,
> > > palisade, oncore, jupiter.
> >
> > Palisade is in use.  It covers Trimble TSIP which includes the
> Thunderbolt
> > which was widely available surplus only a few years ago and is popular
> with
> > time-nuts.  It should probably be renamed to Trimble.
> >
> > There are several sub-drivers/modes to cover different Trimble models
> which
> > use different subsets of the full TSIP protocol.
> >
> > There is also some TSIP code in the generic/parse driver.
> >
> >
> > The oncore driver covers Motorola which is/was very common.  They put
> out a
> > long sequence of chips.  Many of them are way old, but probably don't add
> > much to the driver.  The M12/M12+ was popular and state of the art only
> a few
> > years ago.
> >
> > Motorola sold off their GPS business.  I forget who bought it.  Somebody
> in
> > Asia.  It may have been sold again.  I think the M12+ is still in
> production
> > but the name may have changed and/or they may have updated it again.
>
> Noted.  I'll take these of the list.
>
> I had been thinking about renaming "palisade" to "trimble" if we concluded
> that it's still live.  To be done when I'm back from the second half of my
> vacation.
> --
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