From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Thu Jan 4 16:03:31 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84F0EBF9CE for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:03:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from takawata@sana.init-main.com) Received: from sana.init-main.com (104.194.138.210.bn.2iij.net [210.138.194.104]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "amnesiac", Issuer "amnesiac" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39B6670742 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:03:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from takawata@sana.init-main.com) Received: from sana.init-main.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sana.init-main.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w04FgoWV028427 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:42:52 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from takawata@sana.init-main.com) Received: (from takawata@localhost) by sana.init-main.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w04FgoBj028426 for freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:42:50 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from takawata) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:42:50 +0900 From: Takanori Watanabe To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bluetooth v4 Message-ID: <20180104154250.GA28393@sana.init-main.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) X-BeenThere: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Using Bluetooth in FreeBSD environments List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:03:31 -0000 On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 07:56:32AM +0100, Sid wrote: > The BSD community, not just FreeBSD, should look into creating a standard driver for Bluetooth v4, and forget completely about versions 1.2, 2.x, and 3.x. Worrying about versions 2 and 3 is a complete waste of time. > > Bluetooth v4 dongles are now inexpensive, and are backward compatible with devices of lesser Bluetooth versions. I wrote some code for Bluetooth LE and partly commited to the HEAD. I use HOGP mouse. https://github.com/takawata/FreeBSD-BLE