Looking up who Roderick Colenbrander is (person who submitted the patch over at <a href="https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/patch/20201219062336.72568-2-roderick@gaikai.com/" rel="nofollow">https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/patch/20201...</a>), it seems they are the "Director of Hardware & Systems Engineering" over at Sony. I'd expect them to spend time on more higher-level things, but seems here they either was involved with actually writing the driver, and/or are just the public face for the patch. Seems unusual though. Kudos if directors at Sony still get to write code, especially low-level code like this.<p>Edit: Seems there is more details in a almost year old article on phoronix (<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sony-HID-Official-But-Clones" rel="nofollow">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sony-HID...</a>):<p>> Roderick Colenbrander of Sony who serves as their Directory of Hardware & Systems Engineering, chimed in on the matter of adding this Gasia controller support (And, yes, this is the same Roderick Colenbrander who in his spare time serves as a Wine developer and if going back to the early 2000's was the NVClock NVIDIA overclocking tool developer as opposed to being some eager Sony employee):<p>So seems Roderick is a true hacker! I've used both Wine and NVClock in the past so if you're around here, thanks for your work on all these things and upstreaming them as well! :)
I still remember that I connected a PS4 controller a few years ago to test a unity game that I was making. I typed apt search ps4 but could not find something so I pressed some buttons and magicly the UI changed. It all just worked no setup no nothing. I also used the controller on windows 10 but you had to use the xbox driver with special software to map the controls to that driver. The fact that everything just worked on linux amazes me to this day.
Sony support PS4 and PS5 remote play on Android, so having Linux support for their controllers makes sense (the PS4 controller driver is in Android 10, but DualSense controllers aren't supported there yet)
Okay, I'll bite: Why would Sony want Linux support for their controllers? Like, it's great, but what possible benefit do they get? It's unlikely to sell more PS5s, it... <i>might</i> sell more controllers but I'd be shocked if the profit from that is enough to justify porting the code unless it's <i>really</i> trivial, and the "best" use that I can imagine is supporting emulation which I rather doubt Sony wants to support. So what gives?
The patches to the Kernel are in review and can be seen here: <a href="https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/patch/20201219062336.72568-2-roderick@gaikai.com/" rel="nofollow">https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/patch/20201...</a>
Unfortunately as blog post says, the unique features introduced with DualSense (e.g. Adaptive Triggers, VCM based Haptics) are not yet supported.<p>I was wondering has anybody hacked/reverse engineered them? Wanted to play a bit with the haptic feedback over the years and see the responsiveness and expressiveness of the feedback.
It's plug + play with Windows as well, at least with Steam. Like in the article, the adaptive triggers don't work, but the rest of the functionality does. I'm curious if it worked on Linux on steam before this driver.
This is the first time I see the Playstation 5 controller and I want to cry. What did they do to the controller? It looks like an Xbox controller. Is there an alternative controller? Can you use DS4 with Playstation 5? This is awful!<p>Er. Good thing for the published driver though.
Let's hope that macOS will soon support DualSense controllers too. Was a little disappointing to find out that Google Stadia on Mac does not work with these controllers.
I'm ignore all Sony products since PS3 bullshit: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-run-linux-on-your-ps3-you-could-get-55-from-sony/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-r...</a>
It'd be pretty cool if I could buy a Linux controller that didn't cost $70 and break so easily. We have yet to see how this new gen holds up but last gen was trash. I had 2 ps4 controllers just stop working via bluetooth and 1 even had a bad usb port so it couldn't even hold a charge/maintain a connection.<p>I'm sticking with 8bitdo for a while.