On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 10:06 -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > >>>> Your device is a child of 80860F0A (UART) which is driven by the 8250_dw > >>>> driver. > >>>> OBDA8723 is the BT part of the realtek 8723 WiFi/BT combo chip. > >>>> acpi_platform should create a platform device from the ACPI desc. > >>> > >>> That does show up already in udev, so I should be fine. > >>> > >>>> Then, you can add the OBDA8723 acpi id to the rfkill-gpio platform > >>>> driver (net/rfkill) which > >>>> seems to handle correctly the basic power management of this chip. > >>> > >>> OK. Something like that should do: > >>> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/132832/14104505 > >>> > >>>> You need to use hciattach to attach the chip to the BT stack (with > >>>> H5/3-wire proto). > >>> > >>> Will that be required to enable Bluetooth at every boot? > >>> > >>> After inserting the above module, I ran: > >>> hciattach -n ttyS0 3wire > >>> > >>> But no Bluetooth adapters showed up in hciconfig. The rfkill device did > >>> show up in rfkill list though. > >> > >> my bet is that you need to start with the correct default speed, load > >> some firmware and do more settings and then switch to the faster > >> speed. There is an effort ongoing for the USB version of Realtek > >> Bluetooth, but even that one has not yet completed. > > > > I have a firmware and a config file from the Windows driver, but I doubt > > I'd be able to make great headway without more info. > > in theory this is straight forward, but since this is H:5 it needs extra work > to make this nice and clean. So far no H:5 hardware required extra settings. > This will be the first one. That is mainly because H:5 is not that popular. > > If you can have the basic attachment done with btattach and bring it up in > raw only mode, then you could use HCI User Channel to poke with it. We have > easy code in src/shared/hci.c that allows you to use the HCI User Channel. > > And you want a 3.17 kernel for toying with this of course since I only > recently added the extra flags to hci_uart.ko driver to allow bringing the > device up in raw only mode or in unconfigured mode.
This will have to wait a little then, as 3.17 kernel don't boot on this device yet: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84241 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
