Reading mediatek device [Was: No sentence logs]

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I have a working prototype here:

https://gist.github.com/nobrowser/285d63410b9c2aec77a53587020cf2b6

it is a prototype because reading data via i2c *really* sucks,
and doing it with the adafruit python interface makes it suck
exponentially. i.e. there seems to be no other way to read than to
poll, and that 1 byte at at time ...

So my next step is to write a trivial C daemon with libi2c just to get
the data from the hardware.

I'm happy with my decision to bypass gpsd, though.

-- 
Ian