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IBM BlueDrekar Bluetooth protocol driver for Linux
(Last updated: Aug. 01, 2000)

NOTE: The following excerpts are from IBM's BlueDrekar website . . .

The BlueDrekar protocol driver is IBM's new middleware based on Bluetooth specifications allowing Bluetooth wireless devices -- from phones to household appliances -- to reliably communicate with each other.

The Bluetooth wireless technology is a short-range wireless connectivity technology with particular focus on a specification that lends itself to a low cost, low power and integrated implementation. The Bluetooth project team in IBM Research has been an active participant of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) since its inception in early 1998 and it has led IBM's involvement in the technical activities of the SIG.

We have been developing a reference implementation of the protocol stack. We are making our reference implementation and interfaces available to the Bluetooth adopter members and promoters to develop exciting applications and paradigms around this technology. We anticipate that short-range wireless technologies such as Bluetooth wireless technology will revolutionize mobile and pervasive computing and Wireless Internet paradigms. Considering a wide range of computing and communication devices, including PDAs, notebook computers, pagers, cellular and cordless phones with different capabilities, a "smart" short-range wireless connectivity solution can be a major enabler for new and exciting usage scenarios. Our goal is to develop a community based on our offering and foster Pervasive Computing and Wireless Internet Services and Applications based on the Bluetooth wireless technology.

The BlueDrekar software package includes:
  1. Loadable [Linux] modules of the BlueDrekar protocol driver. This consists of three modules, btstack.o, sdp.o, and rfcomm.o. This includes support from the HCI to RFCOMM layer and the SDP layer.

  2. Manual pages and an open API.

  3. The executable of the bdd daemon which is used to provide the SDP support. The BlueDrekar software package can be downloaded at IBM's alphaWorks site under the alphaWorks license. The source code for this package may be made available to the Bluetooth promoter and adopter members upon request under a special IBM license on an individual basis.

    These modules are compiled for little endian processors. They have been tested in IBM compatible PCs with i486 or higher ix86 processors running Linux Kernel 2.2.11, 2.2.12-20, or 2.2.14-5.0 using the Red Hat distribution version 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2. The big endian version can be also furnished if a cross compiler is provided to us.

  4. Makefiles, documentation files and sample programs that implement various Bluetooth profiles. These files may be used to help write application programs.
The BlueDrekar protocol driver can be used with various HCI transport layers. IBM's reference implementation of the HCI UART transport driver can be downloaded at IBM's developerWorks site under GNU public license.

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