[ug-bosug] Bluetooth stack in userland for open solaris

[Moinak Ghosh]

Ram Kumar wrote:
> Hi anand,
>  
>  
>  This is Ramu , I saw your project Details.The bluetooth concept is 
> failure model. people going to wireless model. why means ? the 
> bluetooth min data is passing like 4MB data to another computer but 
> here is take time lot of more.so i congrats your project it not come 
> to future. The wireless concept more power ful but life , here in my 
> organzation more 150 laptops. solaris install laptops 120 other 
> windows xp, first i try to network cable lot more problem,here is more 
> heavy data passing to another computer that way so many network 
> traffics. then i go to bluetooth with togule & without togule only i 
> doing my R&D but so many problem allway waste my time so then way i go 
> to wireless then  every thing sucess,And one more bluetooth human 
> brain is very dangerous(brain affecting sometime or head diec so many 
> thing)

   I do not quite agree. Bluetooth is an ubiquitious technology
   and is very important to support. I think the project below
   is a good suggestion. Every mobile device in use today supports
   bluetooth whereas Wifi is found only in a few high-end
   mobiles.

   However Bluetooth is not meant for heavy-duty use or general
   purpose networking. I think you are trying to use the
   technology in a way, it was never meant to be used. All said
   there is a clear need for a Bluetooth stack on OpenSolaris.

Regards,
Moinak.

>  
> if u want wireless details plz send a mail to me
>
> with Regards
> K.Ramu
> System administrator
>  
> On Jan 12, 2008 11:53 PM, Anand Bheemarajaiah 
> <anand_bheemaraju at yahoo.com <mailto:anand_bheemaraju at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     My name is Anand B and I am an undergraduate student in RV College
>     of Engineering. Me and my friends(3 total) wanted to build the
>     bluetooth stack for opensolaris as a part of our 8th sem project
>     but after talking to some of the Sun Engineers we decided on
>     building the bluetooth stack in userland instead of kernel since
>     kernel development needs skills, expertise and time which we don't
>     have.
>
>     We have a limited time frame of around 3 -  3 1/2 months and we
>     are 3 people altogether. We have done some simple system
>     programming as a part of our previous semester projects.
>
>     The main idea of the project goes like this -
>
>     Since we can't integrate the stack into kernel, we can't support
>     the existing bluetooth device as a separate hardware. So, we will
>     be writing support for usb-bluetooth dongle. By doing this we will
>     be able to read the bluetooth data from the usb device using the
>     libusb library. Once the bluetooth packets have been read we need
>     to provide the same standard bluetooth stack for applications to
>     use this device. Now we have the freedom of implementing the stack
>     in userland instead of integrating it into the kernel. I thought
>     we could port the freebsd implementation of the bluetooth stack or
>     even the bluez implementation of the stack. The licensing issue
>     will not arise here I think since we are not integrating it into
>     the kernel anywhere.
>
>     After stating all this I have some questions arising in my mind,
>
>     Will be able to complete the project in time? ( an expected level
>     of expertise for the job)
>     How much usability will this project have upon completion ? ( when
>     compared to actual bluetooth stack implementation or in general )
>     Where can I find any guidance or documentation if I get stuck
>     somewhere ?
>     ( because I don't want us to waste too much time reinventing the
>     wheel )
>
>     Can anyone guide me regarding this project ? Any help or guidance
>     is largely welcome. you can contact me at this address - anand
>     (underscore ) bheemaraju (at) yahoo (dot) com.
>
>     Thanks in advance.
>
>     regards,
>     Anand B
>
>
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