SoftwareSerial with MSP430fr5969

My eventual goal is to pass in NMEA GPS strings to our board and use them in our code. 

 

For now I am trying to connect a SparkFun venus GPS unit to a TI-MSP430FR5969 board (version 2.0). I am using the SoftwareSerial example:

 

(https://github.com/energia/Energia/blob/master/hardware/msp430/libraries/SoftwareSerial/examples/SoftwareSerialExample/SoftwareSerialExample.ino)

 

 

The error message when compiling is that the SoftwareSerial only supports 16MHz processors. My confussion is that the comments in the code make specific mention of having resolved this issue. Additionaly, if i understand correctly the MSP430fr5969 board is a 16MHz processor. I have already replaced the files in the softwareSerial library folder with the code from GitHub. 

 

(https://github.com/energia/Energia/tree/master/hardware/msp430/libraries/SoftwareSerial)

 

The eventual goal will be to use a NMEA.h library with an Airmar wind sensor to receive GPS and other sensor readings. 

 

Could you assist me in solving this error message?

 

Thank you.