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> 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
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
> 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.
- mondoshawan 6y agoSuch 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.
- parwan98 6y agoSadly 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.