On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:58, Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012, David Strobach wrote: >> > > > virtualbox and then running either usbmon or Wireshark on your Linux >> > > > system should work just fine. >> > > >> > > O.K., here's what I found: running windows in virtualbox first then >> > > shutting it down again: the adapter works in linux too until the next >> > > reboot (still have to load the module and echo the ID to new_ID because >> > > of the adapter not reconigzed by the actual bt module) >> > > Doing a capture with wireshark on usb port 2 gives me the capture file >> > > attached. >> > >> > so there is clearly some binary download in the capture file. It will >> > most likely match the files that a referenced in the .inf file. However >> > I am not reverse engineering this stuff for anybody. Someone else has to >> > do that job. >> >> based on the trace and the .hex files I extracted from the Windows driver >> package I wrote a simple python rampatch downloader script. I also started >> writing a downloader kernel module. I have two questions though. >> >> Is there a need for a driver module at all? >> The script seems to work well, so I think it would be sufficient to write a >> statically linked libusb based binary downloader and distribute it along with >> the rampatch files and an udev rule file. >> >> If the module is needed for whatever reason, is there a way to implement it >> using btusb HCI interface functions? >> The rampatch download process is basically a series of HCI commans sent to >> control or bulk out endpoint. I could of course implement the payload >> packaging myself, but I feel somehow, that a cleaner solution would be to use >> some common subsystem mechanism. > > How is this all related to the Broadcom firmware uploader that was sent > to this list back in November, or is that for some separate piece of > hardware: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg17785.html That seems to be for old BCM2045 Blutonium adapters. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
