On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:08 AM, David Henningsson < david.hennings...@canonical.com> wrote:
> More and more distros are switching to Bluez 5, including Debian testing. > One of the major blockers for us w r t switching to Bluez 5 has been the > lack of HFP/HSP support, i e, no recording from headsets. > However, support for this has recently started showing up on the PA > mailinglist. The support comes in two forms, both with oFono as backend, > and without external dependencies, like in Bluez 4. > > The bluez 5 backend for HFP/HSP (ofono or native) will, as it looks now, > be switchable at compile time. I suspect we want the ofono backend on > Ubuntu Touch and native on the desktop (right?). We need to deal with this > somehow. > > PulseAudio 6.0 release cycle has not yet started, as we should first try > to get the bluez 5 patches in. But hopefully we should start the release > process within two months and then there is a release 1-2 months from that. > (No guarantees.) > > ALSA 1.0.28 contains a few minor fixes and improvements, e g better 2.1 > surround support, some support for cards with > 4 HDMI devices. It's been > out there for a few months. > > So, what's the plan? I suggest we upload ALSA 1.0.28 in the beginning of > the 15.04 cycle, as early as feasible. There shouldn't be anything stopping > it, and some PA 6.0 stuff makes use of the stuff in alsa-lib 1.0.28. > We could then wait for PulseAudio 6.0 to be relased, and after uploading > that, switch to Bluez 5. > > But I just wanted to give you a heads up about what's going on in the > audio stack, and also gather your opinions/concerns in case you want to do > things differently? I think that plan is sound. It's true that the only blocker for BlueZ 5 was HSP/HFP support, and migrating to BlueZ 5 has been long awaited. I'm all for finally going through with this; but I agree it should wait until the start of 15.04 rather than trying to rush things in now. -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.trudel-lapie...@canonical.com> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu...@gmail.com 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93
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