Bluetooth v4

2018-01-03 Thread Sid
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 devi

Re: Bluetooth v4

2018-01-08 Thread Sid
> Thu Jan 4 16:03:31 UTC 2018; Takanori Watanabe wrote: > I wrote some code for Bluetooth LE and partly commited to the HEAD. > I use HOGP mouse. https://github.com/takawata/FreeBSD-BLE That's a cool project about Bluetooth Low Energy. >> Thu Jan 4 06:56:40 UTC 2018; S

Re: Bluetooth v4

2018-02-22 Thread Sid
>> Jan 04, 2018: >> 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 b

Re: Bluetooth v4

2018-02-27 Thread Sid
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 4:17 AM > Subject: Re: Bluetooth v4 > > On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 14:25 +0900, Takanori Watanabe wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 05:07:41PM +0100, Sid wrote: > > > > > Jan 04, 2018: > > > > > The BSD commun

re: Bluetooth v4

2018-02-27 Thread Sid
I looked at it again. The Bluetooth LE (which is only available for versions 4 and 5) idea is perfect as is. Versions 1.1 and 1.2 drivers should be left as is. If there is going to be any reverse compatibility drivers for traditional data rate protocols, it should be for version 4 (and when 5 b