Source: linux Source-Version: 5.10.19-1 On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 10:17:05AM -0600, Rene Herrero wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 5.9.6-1~bpo10+1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > I don't usually get to thank folks for everything that is made available to > the > world, so a big and sincere thank you, despite not knowing who you are. > > This is most definitely in the wishlist bucket as it is non-essential. It is > however very low lying fruit. > > J1939 and other derived protocols such as NMEA 2000 are widely used in the > automotive and marine industries to name a few. > > I myself live on a sailboat and use various pieces of software that get > supercharged when they can collect data from other devices on the boat. > > For example, I have an AIS and GPS devices on my NMEA 2000 bus that broadcasts > the boat's position and that of other vessels (avoiding large metalic objects > out at sea is a good thing). The can-j1939 Linux Kernel module does all the > heavy lifting involved with the protocol which sits on top of CAN and allows > you to easely send and receive messages with hardware devices already > supported > in Debian Linux (ex: CAN Bus Analyzer from Microchip). This module enables > pulling that data and feeding it to a chart plotter such as OpenCPN. In > simple > terms, seeing a chart is nice, seing a chart displaying your position and that > of other boats is *very* nice, having an alarm go off when a process detects a > collision is eminant is *pure awesomeness* as it can literally save your life. > > The currect workaround is simply to pull the sources and recompiling the > kernel, which is not a huge deal, but it is a little anoying as this (idealy) > needs to be repeated every update. > > Thanks for taking the time to read and consider this,
CAN_J1939 has been enabled as module in 5.10.19-1. Regards, Salvatore
