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Message #16926
Re: BlueZ 5.x finally landed on Touch
On 24.11.2015 10:13, Dmytryi Fedorov wrote:
> Hello,
> Unfortunately no progress with playing music through bluetooth with
> Bluez 5.xx, still stutters.
FWIW, it plays fine for me, no stuttering. Seems to be something in
combination with your headset/speakers.
>
> 20.11.2015 18:28, Simon Fels пишет:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> it finally happened: We are switching to BlueZ 5.x on our Touch images
>> on all supported devices. To make this happen a huge amount of work
>> through the last five months from different people was needed. Thank
>> you all for the great work and support to make this happen!
>>
>> QA approved all silos now and they will be merged by the CI guards
>> today. All device tarballs for supported devices (krillin, vegetahd,
>> arale, mako, flo) were updated to support everything needed for BlueZ
>> 5.x and are already available in the rc-proposed channel.
>>
>> This is just a first step for better Bluetooth support on Ubuntu
>> Touch. We now have the same bluetooth stack in the kernel on all our
>> devices which makes it a lot easier to fix bugs at the same time
>> across all our devices.
>>
>> As this is a very huge and complex landing things can break. We spent
>> a lot time to make sure this doesn't happen. However as Bluetooth is a
>> very complex technology there can and will still be interoperability
>> issues with devices on the market.
>>
>> As we're now releasing this into rc-proposed and will ship this to our
>> users with OTA 9 it would be great if anybody running rc-proposed and
>> experience any problems sends us bug reports. There is a guideline in
>> the wiki at [1] which describes necessary steps to include additional
>> information about what goes wrong in the system. Bugs can be filed
>> against the bluez package at [2].
>>
>> NOTE: There is currently a suspend issue with the new bluetooth stack
>> in the kernel on arale. See [3] for more details. We're working
>> actively on a fix for that.
>>
>> One final word: Generally having BlueZ 5.x will give us a lot more
>> stable Bluetooth experience. What we're landing right now will not
>> directly bring any new Bluetooth features. This is just the base for
>> future work but opens the gate for a lot things :)
>>
>> regards,
>> Simon
>>
>> [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingBluetooth
>> [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez
>> [3]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1505241
>>
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