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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by ed25519FUUU on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:25PM (#26650165)
> Case in point: the Broadcom/Cypress BCM43455 chip on the raspberry pi is almost out of patch entries. Broadcom have switched to their usual tactic of stalling for years on known, reproducible bug reports.

And it's still really buggy. I had to write a service on the RPI and the only way to reliably connect was to restart bluetooth before every attempt.

That kind of fix makes a person feel dirty.

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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by parwan98 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:31PM (#26651956)
Sadly that's common in the hardware world.

Step 1. Have a reliable hardware watchdog that restarts everytime there's a software problem.

Step 2. There is no step 2.

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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by mondoshawan on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:52PM (#26650568)
Such is the sad world of Bluetooth. The dirty secret to this industry is that this, while seeming hacky, is the bare minimum de-facto standard in most cases.
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