Patches to add basic support for the Suunto EON Steel

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Tue Oct 28 10:10:08 PDT 2014


Btw, here's a patch to add the actual deco information (NDL and
ceiling) to libdivecomputer.

The "ceiling time" thing is actually the TTS. There doesn't seem to be
any actual "time at deco stop" in the dive data.

There are tons of other interesting fields (battery charge and voltage
before/after dive etc), and various events. It's all self-documented
by the type subsystem, although some of it isn't very clear. For
example, Suunto clearly has 15 compartments for nitrogen/helium
loading, and it gives the pressures (32-bit integer values: Pascal),
but do people care? The *meaning* of those fields are a bit unclear,
since the deco algorithm is a mixture of that and the
RgbmNitrogen/RgbmHelium values, and we don't really know how the RGBM
algorithm works.

So while there is some type description, that type description doesn't
necessarily make the values "meaningful", even if you know what they
are.. They are "data", not "information".

                        Linus
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