Hello all, My name is Anand B and I am an undergraduate student in RV College of Engineering. Me and my friends(3 total) wanted to build the bluetooth stack for opensolaris as a part of our 8th sem project but after talking to some of the Sun Engineers we decided on building the bluetooth stack in userland instead of kernel since kernel development needs skills, expertise and time which we don't have.
We have a limited time frame of around 3 - 3 1/2 months and we are 3 people altogether. We have done some simple system programming as a part of our previous semester projects. The main idea of the project goes like this - Since we can't integrate the stack into kernel, we can't support the existing bluetooth device as a separate hardware. So, we will be writing support for usb-bluetooth dongle. By doing this we will be able to read the bluetooth data from the usb device using the libusb library. Once the bluetooth packets have been read we need to provide the same standard bluetooth stack for applications to use this device. Now we have the freedom of implementing the stack in userland instead of integrating it into the kernel. I thought we could port the freebsd implementation of the bluetooth stack or even the bluez implementation of the stack. The licensing issue will not arise here I think since we are not integrating it into the kernel anywhere. After stating all this I have some questions arising in my mind, Will be able to complete the project in time? ( an expected level of expertise for the job) How much usability will this project have upon completion ? ( when compared to actual bluetooth stack implementation or in general ) Where can I find any guidance or documentation if I get stuck somewhere ? ( because I don't want us to waste too much time reinventing the wheel ) Can anyone guide me regarding this project ? Any help or guidance is largely welcome. you can contact me at this address - anand (underscore ) bheemaraju (at) yahoo (dot) com. Thanks in advance. regards, Anand B This message posted from opensolaris.org
