[driver-discuss] Project Open: Bluetooth Stack & Drivers

[Cyril Plisko]

On 11/29/06, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:
> Cyril Plisko wrote:
>
> > I've spent a couple of evenings looking at NetBSD, FreeBSD and BlueZ
> > implementation.
>
> Great, can you update our project page with pointers to the stuff you
> looked at.

Will do.

>
> > I can be way wrong here, but nothing looks directly
> > portable to Solaris. The API adds another protocol family for socket API -
> > PF_BLUETOOTH, with all the framework surrounding it. If I understand
> > correctly [Solaris] socket framework intimately related to STREAMS
> > and other systems have something else, sometimes similar, sometimes
> > not. There are, however, plenty of stuff, that can be used for jumpstarting
> > us.
>
> Having PF_BLUETOOH does sound appealing though :-)

Sure ! I am not telling not to use it (we practically have to do it same
way from the user API POW). I am just saying that underlying
implementation based on different kernel model (i.e. not STREAMS)
thus making the port comparable to rewrite from the scratch.

>
> > A couple of organizational things - I think we need a wiki, especially
> > at the
> > first stage where there are plenty of things to discuss.
>
> Sure.  Though I wonder how that is better than just having us all be
> able to update the project page on opensolaris.org.

One has to be a project leader to be able to edit pages there.
Wiki at genunix.org, OTOH, is available for everyone to participate
actively. Another way is to make everyone project leaders...

> > Another thing is (somewhat forward looking) the source repo. I think the
> > best
> > thing is to keep the MQ patch repository on opensolaris.org instead of
> > the full ON repo. That way we'll be fine even if another mercurial repo
> > rebuild will happen (still having problems with one of my personal
> > repos from last accident)
>
> Sounds reasonable, we could even have both.

Taking care of full ON repo may become tiresome.
Anyway, we'll see soon :)

-- 
Regards,
        Cyril