Ongoing Bluetooth work; Linux-like APIs?

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>  > Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>  > > ...
>  > > > I wonder though if anyone has considered implementing the Linux APIs ?
>  > > > ...
>  > >
>  > > That would be good.  Please ping about it if you don't see it within
>  > > a few weeks.
>  >
>  > If folk have cycles to look at that, and are interested in following up,
>  > that is excellent news...
>  >
>  > Meanwhile, a good set of pointers would be:
>  >  http://org.csail.mit.edu/pybluez/
>
> I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of pybluez is.
> Python already supports Bluetooth on FreeBSD out of the box.
> I'm controlling several devices via Bluetooth (RFCOMM/SPP)
> with Python programs on FreeBSD.  It works great.  The very
> same programs work on NetBSD, too.  I haven't tried Linux,
> though.

i think Bruce is talking about more high level (than bluetooth sockets
support) stuff. for example, performing device inquiry, registering
service with sdp server etc.

while bluez libhci stuff  (device inquiry and other general things
such as sending and receiving hci commands and events) can be done
fairly quickly, sdp api is quite different. Iain Hibbert (of netbsd)
and i talking about sdp and how we can make it better.

if anyone is working on libhci for freebsd, please let me know.

thanks,
max