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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] bluetooth
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:48:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd4f9d03a058b551aced7fabeb635ad1@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32A5E278-DECA-4571-A660-571F0E0C304B@mac.com>

> A very superficial glance a long time ago suggested that it was a
> twisty little maze of de-facto and de-vulgus standards.
> i.e. the death of a thousand committees.

The core standard (defining the communication layers) is actually
not too bad, compared to some I've had to look at.  It's huge, but
a lot of it is describing low-level radio stuff (below the hci layer)
which your bluetooth chip takes care of.

All the "profiles" (application layers) have their own separate
standards documents, and there indeed is a morass of (non)design
by committee.

> Then there's the hardware ...

Maybe I was lucky, but my random choice of development hardware
(a cheap generic usb dongle with a CSR chip) has seemed to behave
just as the spec says.  Of course there have been surprises, but
so far these have been where the spec was ambiguous and my guess
didn't match the firmware designer's guess.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-23 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-22 19:34 Skip Tavakkolian
2009-09-22 22:33 ` Patrick Kelly
2009-09-23  0:53 ` dave.l
2009-09-23 14:48   ` Richard Miller [this message]
2009-09-24 20:40     ` dave.l
2009-09-25 10:48       ` Richard Miller
2009-09-23 14:37 ` Richard Miller
2009-09-23 16:10   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-09-23 17:54   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-09-23 17:57     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-09-23 18:11     ` Richard Miller
2009-09-23 20:57       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-09-24  4:33         ` lucio
2009-09-24  8:22         ` Richard Miller
2009-09-24 11:03           ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-09-24 13:59             ` Richard Miller
2009-09-24 20:05               ` Steve Simon
2009-09-25 10:23                 ` Richard Miller
2009-09-24 15:30           ` rsc
2009-09-24 15:57             ` Richard Miller
2009-09-24 19:06           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-09-25 10:11             ` Richard Miller
2009-09-25 11:30               ` matt
2010-04-26 18:09           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2022-03-19 19:05 [9fans] Perhaps someone can give me an advice Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2022-03-19 19:52 ` [9fans] bluetooth Richard Miller

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