Hi Dario,
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Dario Teixeira
<dario.teixeira@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I've manually compiled the latest Bluez (5.43) on both Raspberry Pi 2
>> and Artik 5 systems, as I need the experimental features for BLE enabled.
>> While on the Pi things work as expected, on the Artik 5 the
>> "LEAdvertisement"
>> interface is not enabled. Upon closer inspection, the bluetoothd daemon
>> on the Artik 5 complains on startup with the following error:
>>
>> "Failed to read advertising features: Unknown Command (0x01)"
>>
>> I suspect the problem may be related to the old kernel (3.10.93)
>> that ships with the Artik 5, because these features may require
>> a more recent kernel. Is this suspicion correct? And if so,
>> is there any other solution besides attempting to compile a
>> newer kernel for the Artik 5?
>
>
> In the meantime I've found some information which confirms my
> initial suspicion: BLE advertising features require kernel >= 4.1,
> and therefore it's hopeless to use the Artik 5 for this purpose,
> because its heavily patched vendor kernel is stuck at 3.10.93,
> possibly forever...
If you have access to Artik 5 kernel 3.10.93 source, you could:
1. recompile that kernel with all Bluetooth components disabled
2. use Linux backports to pick up the latest Bluetooth kernel core and
drivers as a loadable module
http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/rel-html/backports/
>
>
> Best regards,
> Dario Teixeira
>
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