From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 10:08:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA1916A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:08:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from fly.ebs.gr (dslcustomer-239-113.vivodi.gr [83.171.239.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AABA43D48 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:08:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from ebs.gr (root@hal.ebs.gr [10.1.1.2]) by fly.ebs.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k0RA8el9004902; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:08:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from [10.1.1.158] (ajax.ebs.gr [10.1.1.158]) by ebs.gr (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0RA9X0r070534; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:09:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Message-ID: <43D9F127.5000501@ebs.gr> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:08:39 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: EBS Ltd. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maksim Yevmenkin References: <200601211748.00824.markus@brueffer.de> <43D3404D.3040701@savvis.net> <200601231245.35687.markus@brueffer.de> <43D98DF2.1060507@savvis.net> In-Reply-To: <43D98DF2.1060507@savvis.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing HCI events X-BeenThere: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Using Bluetooth in FreeBSD environments List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:08:46 -0000 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