Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust

Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by mschuster91 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:47PM (#26650483)

> If someone senior at Samsung said to their vendor "good Bluetooth or you lose the Samsung account", that would provoke some, um, intense conversations at the vendor between sales and engineering.

The problem: There aren't that many suppliers left in the field, and Broadcom knows that their customers are pretty much locked in. The notable exception is once again Apple, they have proven that they can and will go and implement the technology on their own if their suppliers fail to meet their expectations.

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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by dflock on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:26PM (#26651042)

> go and implement the technology on their own

Samsung could obviously do this too, but as you say, they lack the will - and motivation.

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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by mschuster91 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:16PM (#26652537)

Besides that they also lack the amount of control over the software side. Google is the entity that controls the stack, not Samsung - their responsibility ends at the kernel / HAL interface.

So why should Samsung invest more than the bare minimum when they can't get anything measurable in return?

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Re:Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is wri... by Godel_unicode on Thursday April 01, 2021 @01:36AM (#26656986)

This is, of course, totally untrue. Samsung changes a ton of things about their flavor of Android, at every level of the stack.

Edit: Samsung has apparently already ripped out the Bluetooth stack and replaced it with their own - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26650447

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