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+tags: Replicant news, GNUtoo
+date: 2021-06-14 18:09
+title: Replicant is looking for volunteers to add support for the “GSD4t” GPS chip.
+---
+Over the years, none of the Replicant contributors have been able to find the
+time to add support for this chip,and at the time of writing this chip is
+still not supported by Replicant despite being relatively easy to add support
+for it compared with the Broadcom GPS chips that are present in the other
+supported devices.
+
+Over time, contributions from other people and projects made it easier to add
+support for the GSD4t chip.
+
+There is now some documentation of that protocol in the form of some [Perl
+source that can probably decode the protocol][1], and [there has also been
+some people doing research on it][2].
+
+In addition it’s also easier to do some tests on GNU/Linux: [there is now some
+support in upstream Linux for the Galaxy SII (GT-I9100)][3] thanks to the
+postmarketOS contributor(s) who worked on that. [The nonfree bootloader of the
+Galaxy SII (GT-I9100) might requires some patches on top of that][4], but we
+also maintain patches for the Galaxy SIII (GT-I9300 and GT-I9305) bootloaders
+in our [kernel_replicant_linux repository][5] that might also work on the
+Galaxy SII (GT-I9100).
+
+The Replicant developers are mostly available on the Replicant mailing and on
+IRC (#replicant on the hackint, libera.chat and OFTC networks). See the
+[CommunityAndContacts][6] wiki page for more details.
+
+As for how to integrate the work, we already have [an example of GPS library
+that was used in Replicant 4.2 for the GTA04][7].
+
+As [postmarketOS is also interested in making this chip work with free
+software][8], it might be a good strategy to also consult them to see how that
+work could also benefit GNU/Linux distributions.
+
+edit1: removed duplicated title.
+
+License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported
+
+ [1]: <https://github.com/mnalis/gsd4t_parser>
+
+ [2]: <https://redmine.replicant.us/boards/21/topics/897>
+
+ [3]:
+<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4210-i9100.dts>
+
+ [4]:
+<https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BootloadersIncompatibleWithLinux#Devices-
+with-the-Exynos-4412-2>
+
+ [5]: <https://git.replicant.us/replicant-next/kernel_replicant_linux/>
+
+ [6]:
+<https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/CommunityAndContact>
+
+ [7]: <https://git.replicant.us/replicant/device_goldelico_gta04/tree/gps>
+
+ [8]:
+<https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SII_(samsung-i9100)#GPS>
+
+