February 2004 - Bluetooth-dev

Re: bt sdk 1.4.1 - how to uninstall?
by Marco Pontil 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

You can get the non-sdk version of the stack from the apple support page http://www.info.apple.com/. However, as jason wrote, it would be really helpful if you could e-mail us the panic backtrace before installing the non-sdk stack. ... Marco On Feb 5, 2004, at 7:05 AM, Bob Kuehne wrote: hi, so after a post yesterday that there was a new version of the bt sdk, i ran right out and got it: ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/ Bluetooth_SDK_1.4.1.dmg.bin but, much to my dismay, connecting my apple bt mouse now panics the system! what's the recommended way to completely uninstall that package? i tried installing the prior sdk over the top, hopefully to revert elements, but it's still crashing. thanks! bob _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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Re: bt sdk 1.4.1 - how to uninstall?
by Bubba Giles 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Hi Bob, Can you send us a picture of the kernel panic? To uninstall, I'd remove the 1.4.1 kexts from the /System/Library/Extensions folder (IOBluetoothFamily.kext and IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext), and be SURE to throw out the Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache, then reinstall. Sorry about the problems, that was not our intention, of course. ;-) Jason bubba(a)apple.com > hi, > > so after a post yesterday that there was a new version of the bt sdk, > i ran right out and got it: > > > ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/ > Bluetooth_SDK_1.4.1.dmg.bin > > but, much to my dismay, connecting my apple bt mouse now panics the > system! > > what's the recommended way to completely uninstall that package? i tried > installing the prior sdk over the top, hopefully to revert elements, > but it's still crashing. > > thanks! > bob > _______________________________________________ > bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com > Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: > http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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bt sdk 1.4.1 - how to uninstall?
by Bob Kuehne 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

hi, so after a post yesterday that there was a new version of the bt sdk, i ran right out and got it: ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/ Bluetooth_SDK_1.4.1.dmg.bin but, much to my dismay, connecting my apple bt mouse now panics the system! what's the recommended way to completely uninstall that package? i tried installing the prior sdk over the top, hopefully to revert elements, but it's still crashing. thanks! bob _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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Updated Bluetooth SDK - PacketDecoder returns!
by Ben Ralston 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

I came across an updated Bluetooth SDK on the developer sdk (developer.apple.com/sdk/) page today. It looks like it was just added on 2/2/04. For the life of me I can't figure out why there is no mention of it on the main Bluetooth dev page (http://developer.apple.com/hardware/bluetooth/) nor why there was no announcement on this list. That is the sort of thing this list is for. Anyway, for those of us that were complaining loudly (like me) that PacketDecoder functionality has been broken for several releases can now rejoice. The new SDK has updated debug .kexts that enable this functionality...thanks Bluetooth team! Apple, please be a little more responsive to this list. There is no reason why you couldn't have just told us to wait for the SDK to come out. Just ignoring us doesn't help anybody. Now it just created more work for you guys because I filed a bug report which now has to be removed. -Ben _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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Bluetooth in the Kernel
by Steve Bennett 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

Hi! I'm investigating the driver (and possibly firmware) issues related to getting a number of Bluetooth devices working nicely with Mac OS X (10.3 and up). Included among these devices are some HID devices and a Bluetooth USB adapter. While these devices currently work in a basic form on Mac OS X as is, there are issues which need to be addressed. For the Bluetooth USB Adapter, we would very much like to add functionality to allow it to wake up the machine when a paired Bluetooth HID device (any mouse or keyboard) sends events. I strongly suspect this requires a firmware modification, but may also require some IOKit driver support. I'd also like to find out where and how the "Allow Bluetooth Devices to Wake This Computer" setting is handled. For our Bluetooth HID devices, we're looking into adding some additional driver support at the IOKit level, similar to what might be provided to a USB HID device through an IOKit class derived from IOUSBHIDDriver. (Ideally, there ought to be an IOBluetoothHIDDriver class, but I'm not holding my breath...) The problem I'm running into here is that not only can I find no documentation at all for the kernel level Bluetooth support, or on how to match Bluetooth devices to kernel extensions. I can't find the source code in the Darwin release (I suspect from comments elsewhere on the web that it's not been published...), and the available headers in Kernel.framework and IOBluetooth.framework aren't too helpful. Can anyone point me to a good starting point here? Thanks, -->Steve Bennett _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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Re: Is there a problem with Bluetooth operations and multi-threa ding?
by Marco Pontil 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Opps, I meant "Yes, running on different processes it would be safe". ... Marco P.S. Sorry for the confusion. On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Crichlow, Eric wrote: Yes, it would not be, Ummm... was that "no, it would not be (safe)" or "yes, it would be (safe)"? :) From your next line it appears you mean yes, it would be safe. but be sure we are talking about "processes" and not "threads". Yes, if I can't do it in threads, then I'll change my app to spawn independent processes to accomplish the same task. ...Eric... _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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RE: Is there a problem with Bluetooth operations and multi-threa ding?
by Crichlow, Eric 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

> Yes, it would not be, Ummm... was that "no, it would not be (safe)" or "yes, it would be (safe)"? :) From your next line it appears you mean yes, it would be safe. > but be sure we are talking about "processes" and not "threads". Yes, if I can't do it in threads, then I'll change my app to spawn independent processes to accomplish the same task. ...Eric... _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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Re: Is there a problem with Bluetooth operations and multi-threa ding?
by Marco Pontil 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Yes, it would not be, but be sure we are talking about "processes" and not "threads". ... Marco On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Crichlow, Eric wrote: However the bluetooth stack is not thread safe. So you must run all the bluetooth code in the same thread. Can I assume that if I implement my application as a number of independent processes, each responsible for connecting to and managing a Bluetooth device, that this would be safe? ...Thanx... ...Eric... _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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RE: Is there a problem with Bluetooth operations and multi-threa ding?
by Crichlow, Eric 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

> However the bluetooth stack is not thread safe. > So you must run all the bluetooth code in the same thread. Can I assume that if I implement my application as a number of independent processes, each responsible for connecting to and managing a Bluetooth device, that this would be safe? ...Thanx... ...Eric... _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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