Thanks Vincent ! I wanted to do the same but couldn't figure out where to do so...
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 09:47 Vincent Blut <vincent.deb...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi Rene, > > Le 2021-02-14 22:15, reneherr...@gmail.com a écrit : > > 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 > metallic 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 easily 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, > > > > Rene > > I sent a merge request for this: > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/329 > > > Cheers, > Vincent >
