Asus U3S - Maxim 2741

Upon further googling, it appears the Asus U3S notebook contains an optional
built-in GPS based on the Maxim 2741 processor.

See this thread 

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=740906

The Philips "spot GPS" software mentioned by maxim is now licensed under NXP
and named swGPS.

Implications as I understand them:

1. There is now a complete standard hardware (PC) which osGPS could
potentially run on

2. This hardware combination has the benefit of an independent software GPS
implementation that we can directly compare with.

3. There are people running non-Microsoft (ie linux) on these machines and
they need an actual working osGPS code (since the swGPS doesn't work on
linux)

I'm read the GPS "software approach" book and hopefully will be able to
figure out what would be required to modified osGPS to use the maxim chip.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

--Michael