Hi Jim, On Wednesday 02 April 2014 11:10:02 Jim Hollister wrote: > I need to add Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) capability to an ARM-based embedded > system that's currently based on Ubuntu Lucid 11.04 and Linux kernel > 2.6.35. I've read that BLE support in bluez requires Linux kernel version > 3.5 or later. At this point, I think this leaves me with four options: > > A) Upgrade the embedded system to a recent Linux kernel >= 3.5 > B) Backport the most recent bluez to run on Linux kernel 2.6.35 > C) Combine both approaches A and C, so that the embedded system and bluez > meet at a kernel version somewhere between 2.6.35 and 3.5 > D) Find a different BLE stack that will run on Linux kernel 2.6.35. I see a > number of those described at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_stack#Embedded_implementations > > I would much prefer to use bluez, but I'm concerned about the effort > involved in upgrading the embedded system, and I don't know anything about > the feasibility of backporting bluez. Would some kind and knowledgeable > person please give me some advice or an opinion about how I should approach > this? I suggest using backports project [1] to update Linux Bluetooth subsystem in kernel. Also best would be to use latest available release. [1] http://backports.wiki.kernel.org -- Szymon K. Janc szymon.janc@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
