Bug 39710

Summary:	Reporting success with bluetooth utilities on SPARC (Please update package masks)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Richmond <mrichmon>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sparc Porters <sparc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Richmond 2004-01-28 16:41:51 UTC

I've been able to compile and use bluetooth support on my Sun Ultra 10 machine to connect with my bluetooth Palm Pilot to perform network sharing. This means that the following packages compile fine and seem to be stable on the sparc platform. Please adjust the masks on each of these:

bluez-libs-2.4
bluez-utils-2.3-r2
bluez-sbpd-1.5
libopenobdex-1.0.1
gob-2.0.6
libbtctl-0.3
gnome-bluetooth-0.4.1
bluez-pan-1.1
bluez-hcidump-1.5


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-01-28 16:46:17 UTC

Could you please provide kernel information? Bluetooth won't work properly with certain kernels, and I'd like to straighten that out before I start keywording. Also, have you managed to do obex file transfers?

Comment 2 Michael Richmond 2004-01-28 18:02:45 UTC

Kernel version is 2.4.24-sparc. So far I have got network sharing over ppp to my Palm T3 working. Will update once I've tested the file transfers.

Comment 3 Michael Richmond 2004-01-28 18:50:03 UTC

I notice that I may not have been clear in my original report. All of the bluez-* packages only have the x86 keyword. Those packages certainly appear to be working correctly allowing discovery, service publishing on the sparc-linux machine and l2pinging of bluetooth devices in range.

This level of function demonstrates that the kernel modules, userspace libraries and low-level tools such as l2ping, hcitool sdptool and rfcomm are working. Presumably this means that they warrant the ~sparc keyword.

libopenobdex, gob, libbtctl, and gnome-bluetooth also compile and do not exhibit stability problems. Although it appears that gnome-bluetooth doesn't offer much in the way of functionality right now.

I have compiled the obextool and had no problems using it to perform an obex push to my Palm T3. The obextool is a quick and nasty command line hack which uses openobex to perform obex pushes.

Comment 4 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-02-12 10:43:48 UTC

Updated in cvs. Looks like 2.4.x kernels work but 2.6.x don't (at least with my adapter...).