Bluetooth stack: Difference between revisions

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BlueZ is the official<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bluez.org/history.html |title=BlueZ - Official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack |accessdate=2008-05-03}}</ref> [[Bluetooth stack]] for [[Linux]] and is used in Google's [[Android (operating system)|Android]] OS[http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-information-on-apis-removed-in.html]. Its goal is to make an implementation of the Bluetooth wireless standards specifications for Linux. As of 2006, the BlueZ stack supports all core [[Bluetooth]] protocols and layers.<ref name=embedded-audio-linux>{{cite paper |author=Selim Çιracι, Evren Karaca, Mark Reşat Pariente |date=[[2006-05-19]] |title=Bluetooth Audio Streaming on Linux-Based Embedded Devices |publisher=[[Bilkent University]] |url=http://www.ug.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/~resat/Resources/cs515term.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2007-03-05 }}</ref> It was initially developed by [[Qualcomm]], and is available for [[Linux kernel]] versions 2.4.6 and up.

In addition to the basic stack, the Bluezbluez-utils and Bluezbluez-firmware packages contain low level utilities such as dfutool which can interrogate the Bluetooth adapter chipset to determine whether its firmware can be upgraded.

hidd is the Bluetooth [[human interface device]] (HID) daemon.<ref>[http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/hidd1.html hidd<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>