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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:08:39 +0200
From:      Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr>
To:        Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Missing HCI events
Message-ID:  <43D9F127.5000501@ebs.gr>
In-Reply-To: <43D98DF2.1060507@savvis.net>
References:  <200601211748.00824.markus@brueffer.de>	<43D3404D.3040701@savvis.net>	<200601231245.35687.markus@brueffer.de> <43D98DF2.1060507@savvis.net>

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Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> Markus,
> 
> sorry for the delay.
> 
>>>> I've finally found time to sit down and port the kde-bluetooth 
>>>> framework
>>>> for FreeBSD. While there are a lot of similarities between the FreeBSD
>>>> stack and bluez, I can't find equivalents to some HCI events.
>>>
>>> great! thanks for doing the work!
>>
>> It has been for too long on my TODO list :)
>>
>> In the meanwhile I have most of libkbluetooth compiling and noticed, 
>> that a libhci would be very helpful and could ease future user space 
>> developments/porting dramatically (I bet the GNOME guys will come up 
>> with a bluetooth framework sooner or later as well). How about 
>> incorporating such a lib in the basesystem along with libsdp and 
>> libbluetooth (similar to lib_hci of bluez)?

It would certainly help me port gnome-bluetooth, since I've been stuck 
for some time on UUID differences between the two platforms.

> funny you should mention that. someone actually asked me about this a 
> while ago and even promised to start the work.
> 
> there was a short thread in freebsd-bluetooth
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-bluetooth/2005-September/000410.html 
> 
> 
> and i also have few email addressed directly to me. you might want to 
> contact this person and ask about the progress.

That would be nice, indeed.

Cheers,

Panagiotis



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