Linux 7.0 Merges Support For Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitars Plus More Laptop Quirks (www.phoronix.com)

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The HID subsystem changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Among the Human Interface Devices (HID) work this cycle were supporting more guitars while also adding more device IDs and different laptop quirks.

Linux 7.0 now has mainline kernel support for the Rock Band 4 guitars designed for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. At the start of the year Linux patches came for enabling the Rock Band 4 PS4/PS5 guitars via additions to the SOny HID driver. These guitars are the PDP RiffMaster and the CRKD Gibson SG in both their PS4 and PS5 modes. There are also dongle device IDs added for the CRKD Gibson SG.

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[-] phx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

What would these be used for? Emulated games? I don't see PC versions of Rock Band on Steam. I suppose there's Frets On Fire which was based on Guitar Hero

[-] serpineslair@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Either emulated, or Clone Hero (FOSS).

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Clone Hero isn't FOSS, there's no source available.
YARG is though.

[-] Lojcs@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Why the major version change?

[-] entwine@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago

Because Rock Band represents a major milestone in Linux kernel development. Why do you think Linus had been building guitar pedals in his free time?

[-] T4V0@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Linus ran out of fingers and toes, and I'm not even joking.

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