bthci/hciextensioninterface/tsrc/tproxycorehci/group/readme.txt
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// Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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// All rights reserved.
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// This component and the accompanying materials are made available
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// under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
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// which accompanies this distribution, and is available
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// at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
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// Initial Contributors:
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// Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
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//
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// Contributors:
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// Description:
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//
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Purpose
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This corehci allows you to run tproxy whilst the associated serial port is still connected to a controller 
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(for example a Casira). 
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It obviates the need to replace the controller with a null modem connection to a second serial port
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on which you would have hcemeulator running. It therefore obviates the need to configure the hci to use the 
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h4 (uart original) host controller transport layer (hctl).
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What does it do?
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This is the standard Symbian Core HCI branched (Nov 2008) and modified to intercept Vendor specific commands. 
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Instead of passing vendor specific commands down to the HCTL, it sends back a corresponding command complete 
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event with an event payload identical to the payload in the vendor specific command. Further more, prior to 
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sending back the corresponding command complete event it sends several vendor specific debug events.
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This is an advantage over hcemeulator which requires user input to send vendor debug events.
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How do you set it up
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Just compile this core hci. The config files are automatically exported, though, to be
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sure, do an "abld test reallyclean" first .... or simply use the supplied bldcorehci.bat file
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Constraints
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It only works with HCI_V2.
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Warning
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If debugging in Carbide make sure you do not debug from a project containing the HCI source tree.
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If you do, Carbide may revert your config to using the standard CoreHCI implementation.
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What tproxy expects
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tproxy expects the (vendor specific) command complete event. TProxy will handle the vendor debug events. 
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It does not, however, require them.
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Contact
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Nick Frankau