Re: [Bluez-devel] What's the purpose of the new btusb driver ?

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Max,

> >>> I heard rumors that Qualcomm is working on a BlueZ based project. 
> >> Hmm. Heard from whom ?
> > 
> > we had one guy from Qualcomm attending the BlueZ developer meeting a few
> > month ago. So it seems there some efforts.
> Do you remember his name ?

his name is Steve Ross and since the Google announcement of the Android
mobile platform, I am pretty sure that it goes into that direction.

> >>> Any chance you are coming back to help me out with the kernel stuff. All
> >>> this new Alternate MAC/PHY stuff is a lot of work.
> >> It is ? I haven't been following BT spec development. I get these emails
> >> from SIG (I'm still subscribed to their mailing list). But they are being
> >> redirected to /dev/null because of lack of time.
> >> Can you give me some pointers to that MAC/PHY stuff you're talking about ?
> >> Is it in the latest spec ?
> > 
> > Nothing is set in stone here, but for the Seattle release of the
> > specification next year it seems that Alternate MAC/PHY additions are
> > coming. Which means using Ultra-Wideband and/or IEEE 802.11 as alternate
> > radio technologies for high speed links.
> 
> > Also the L2CAP retransmission and flow control will be started to be
> > used by profile specification. This means we need an implementation for
> > that at some point. I started working on it, but always get distracted
> > by user space stuff.
> Sounds interesting.

Cool. Ping me when you are back in. The user space portion is covered
pretty well, but the kernel area lacks some developers.

Regards

Marcel



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