On 09/23/09 06:43 AM, Edward O'Callaghan wrote: > I think the Bluetooth stack should be given more urgent attention. > I still find it amazing that OpenSolaris _still_ does not support > Bluetooth or have anything integrated at all.
I'll be completely honest and open here; You all probably realize that Sun has had a tough time over the last several years, business wise. That's public knowledge, right? The amount of cost cutting to keep things alive until Oracle showed up was rather fantastic. It worked, but the cuts were deep. Since 99 percent of Sun's paying customers were buying servers and services (rather than laptops), it was close to impossible to make a rational business case for spending money we did not have on bluetooth. No one would approve that. One of the reasons for even starting open source solaris was so that community could help with things that the company was unable to fund. (The other good reason was customers demanding open source) So I agree, I think the Bluetooth stack should be given more attention. But since there are no paying customers demanding it, we don't have the ability to fund that work inside of Sun, it needs some community volunteers to step up. (Or it needs the new owner to decide he wants bluetooth to work on *his* laptop) :-) Cheers, Neal > > Regards, > > 2009/9/21 Michael Li <Mikore.Li at sun.com>: >> solarg ??: >>> Michael Li wrote: >>>> solarg ??: >>>>> hello all, >>>>> after finding that somebody wrote a blutooth stack: >>>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/awards/awards_land/Entries/ >>>>> (search Bluetooth stack for OpenSolaris in user space) >>>>> i gave it a try on my os2009.06 b111b, but the program coredumps >>>>> immediatly. >>>>> Is there any chance to have something working in opensolaris? or is it >>>>> possible to use the bluetooth mouse support package? >>>> From my limited test with bluetooth mouse package, most of bluetooth >>>> mouse should work, but there is no guarantee for all the bluetooth mouse by >>>> now. >>> but does it mean that bluetooth mouse package is ok for other devices like >>> cell phones? >> no, there is no obex support in this package. >> >> - Michael >>>> For the issue of userland bluetooth stack, you'd better to contact the >>>> developer directly. >>>> >>> but regarding the poor documentation, neither mail nor website related to >>> this userland bt stack, i tried here, hoping that the project is still >>> alive... I suppose that the project was never updated since b70 (according >>> the readme) >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> gerard >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > >
